📄 Afternoon session opening — Wednesday, May 3, 1995
📅 May 3 — Day 66
⚖️ Lance A. Ito
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▲ Day 66 of 167

Afternoon session opening

Date: Wednesday, May 3, 1995 • Utterances: 7
Judge Ito reconvenes court, brings the jury in, and apologizes for the late morning start, explaining that he and counsel spent time reviewing evidence before it could be presented. Gregory Matheson, a forensic witness, resumes the stand to continue his testimony.
1 THE COURT:

Back on the record. Counsel, are we ready to proceed?

2 MR. BLASIER:

Yes.

3 THE COURT:

All right. Let's have the jury, please.

4 (Brief pause.)
5 (The following proceedings were held in open Court, in the presence of the jury:)
6 THE COURT:

All right. 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. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

THE JURY: Good morning.

7 THE COURT:

My apologies to you for the late start this morning. This morning I had to go over a number of items of evidence before they were presented to you, had to review them with the attorneys. We started that at eight o'clock sharp this morning, so we have been hard at it, but there are a number of issues that we had to go over. My apologies to you. Mr. Matheson, would you resume the witness stand, please.

Gregory Matheson, the witness on the stand at the time of the evening adjournment, resumed the stand and testified further as follows:

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (1)

Lance A. Ito
This morning I had to go over a number of items of evidence before they were presented to you, had to review them with the attorneys. We started that at eight o'clock sharp this morning, so we have been hard at it, but there are a number of issues that we had to go over.
Reveals that an in-camera evidence review session preceded the jury session, suggesting contested or sensitive evidentiary matters were vetted outside the jury's presence.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 5896 • 7 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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