📄 Jury instructions — Thursday, May 11, 1995
📅 May 11 — Day 72
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Jury instructions

Date: Thursday, May 11, 1995 • Utterances: 3
Judge Ito brings the jury back into the courtroom and reminds them to disregard his facial expressions, note-taking, and any apparent annoyance he displays during proceedings, as none of it constitutes evidence. He then invites Dr. Cotton to resume the witness stand and allows defense attorney Neufeld to continue cross-examination.
1 THE COURT:

Let's have the jury, please.

2 (The following proceedings were held in open court, in the presence of the jury:)
3 THE COURT:

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. Let the record reflect we have now been rejoined by all the members of our jury panel. Ladies and gentlemen, before we proceed any further, if you recollect, at the beginning of the trial, I instructed you that you were to ignore anything that I'm doing up here, any of my expressions. That for example, if I suddenly start to write down something, that doesn't mean that what the witness just said was important. I mean, for all you know, I'm just writing a note to myself to stop at the market and get dog food on the way home. So don't pay any attention to what I'm doing up here. And if I appeared to be annoyed at any time to a question or to an attorney or about that, disregard that, because my opinions, expressions, reactions to things are not evidence, not relevant to your determination in this case. All right. Dr. Cotton, would you resume the witness stand, please. Good afternoon again, doctor. And, Mr. Neufeld, you may continue.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito
I'm just writing a note to myself to stop at the market and get dog food on the way home.
A rare moment of levity from the typically stern Ito, used to humanize his instruction and make the point memorable for jurors.

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito
Ito jokes that his note-taking might just be a reminder to buy dog food on the way home, not a signal that testimony is important.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 6020 • 3 utterances
Criminal Trial
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