Judge Ito interrupted Scheck's examination of witness Sims to address a scheduling conflict — jurors had visitors waiting for their afternoon visitation. Scheck deferred immediately, and the witness was dismissed to return the following morning at 8:45.
# 1 MR. SCHECK: And he came back to document the strips d1--DQ-Alpha strips or RFLP autorads or D1S80 strips after the test results had been done.
# 2 THE COURT: Excuse me. Mr. Scheck, forgive me for interrupting you. Do you have much more?
# 3 (Discussion held off the record between Defense counsel.) # 4 MR. SCHECK: I don't know what the scheduling problems are. I'm close.
# 5 THE COURT: We have visitation for the jurors this afternoon scheduled and we already have a number of their visitors waiting.
KEY QUOTE # 6 MR. SCHECK: Then I don't want to interfere with that. I'm sorry.
KEY QUOTE # 7 THE COURT: Okay. Mr. Sims, I guess we'll see you tomorrow morning, 8:45.