The people I just mentioned, they have full reports on. Is the court inclined to entertain the sequestration motion, your Honor?
I guess I should respond. I'll be brief. I think this takes the cake for the most transparent motion ever made by the Defense. Now that they've had everything on Fuhrman unleashed, everything that could possibly be said and done about this man has been all over the community, all over Los Angeles, there are posters, there are flyers, there are articles in the papers everyday, news, television programs about this all the time, I wonder why the Defense wants the jurors to be unsequestered. I wonder if I can figure this one out. I think anybody can figure this one out. This is, of course, the most--the worse time for the jurors.
I wasn't even attempting to say that, but I know it's obvious to your Honor. It's obvious to all of us what they're trying to do here, and it's absolutely improper, and I don't even think we need to address it any further because it's so obviously improper. And I will tell you one thing. We will rest by Friday unless the Defense motions prevent it because we have voluntarily pared back our list, having seen the fatigue of the jurors and their desire to go home, which we fully understand, believe me, fully. So we will rest by Friday, your Honor. It's up to the Defense to finally rest and stop playing games, filing spurious motions, asking for more time on matters that they've been fully prepared on for months. Let's just get this thing done. We'll call Gary Sims, whose testimony will take 10 minutes. I'll give you an offer right now. Gary Sims' testimony, if it takes more than a half hour, we will all be surprised.
No. We are talking--I'm not interested in that. Just the continued full sequestration of the jury as opposed to the modified sequestration suggested by Mr. Cochran and the plan originally contemplated by the court.
The answer is not to unsequester a jury that will be released into the community that is rife with inadmissible matter, very inflammatory matter. That's exactly why they want them released. The answer is to shut this case down. The answer is to end this trial. That's what we need to do. We need to stop with the endless motions and the endless arguments and the endless, you know, requests for time that--for lack of discovery. Now they have it. They've got it all. They have everything with the exception of the impressions that the Defense complains of that will be made available to them that they already know about. Their witness testified to it. Now, with respect to our timing, I've indicated to the court that unless we get stopped up by a lot of Defense motions, we will be done by Friday, and then the Defense has to be made to rest at some point. They have to end their case. And whatever witness they have coming--obviously a witness coming this late in the game, we are going to have to scrutinize for relevance and admissibility. This shouldn't take very long. If it's admissible, fine. If it's not, fine, you know. And part of the admissibility issue with a witness newly discovered, it may well be that that witness may engender a mini trial. We have to indicate--we'd have to bet right now that won't take that long. So if everything goes according to the way it should and everybody just puts on their witnesses and stops talking, we will finish this case, both Defense and the Prosecution, by Tuesday of next week.
KEY QUOTEI must say--I know the hour is late. Thank you. We--I'm just dealing with this motion. We're serious about this motion. I recall when we were picking this jury when the Prosecution, city attorney and the police released that 911 tape, they weren't worrying about what may cause problems for this jury. Now we're worrying about what happens in this community. What we are worried about is getting this case over with to the jury. We agree on that aspect. But counsel says on the one hand, we've got to stop all these motions. She says this mystery witness, whom they know about already, was--
At any rate, the point is, they know who this witness is. They should have told us about it at any rate. So they're saying on the one hand we're going to have all these admissibility hearings as they did with every one of our witnesses--keep in mind, Judge, we took--they took what, six, seven months. We took like eight weeks. I mean, we can't even compare that. I'm very serious about this. I would ask you not to give--I don't think this is a no brainer. I think when you see the fatigue on those people's faces, not paying much attention, staring off into space, coupled with the problem that lady has, coupled with the problem the juror had this morning, we are at a real crises point. It seems to me--so I throw this out for your Honor's wisdom and thinking. I don't think it's a no brainer when you've spent this much time, this much evidence. If you think--I would be real pleased to finish this case, their part by Friday. If they do that, we'll finish our part as soon thereafter as possible, but I don't think it's a no brainer is the point I want to make.
I think this takes the cake for the most transparent motion ever made by the Defense. Now that they've had everything on Fuhrman unleashed, everything that could possibly be said and done about this man has been all over the community, all over Los Angeles, there are posters, there are flyers, there are articles in the papers everyday... I wonder why the Defense wants the jurors to be unsequestered.
Miss Lewis would say this is a real no brainer, as Miss Lewis would say.
The answer is not to unsequester a jury that will be released into the community that is rife with inadmissible matter, very inflammatory matter. That's exactly why they want them released. The answer is to shut this case down.
I think when you see the fatigue on those people's faces, not paying much attention, staring off into space, coupled with the problem that lady has, coupled with the problem the juror had this morning, we are at a real crises point.