📄 Administrative matters — Thursday, September 14, 1995
📅 Sep 14 — Day 154
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Administrative matters

Date: Thursday, September 14, 1995 • Utterances: 10
A brief administrative pause before resuming proceedings. The court noted that both Marcia Clark and the witness were absent, held a short unreported bench conference, then called the jury back in once all parties were present.
1 (The following proceedings were held in open court, out of the presence of the jury:)
2 MR. SCHECK:

I was informed they have some more questions.

3 THE COURT:

Well, Miss Clark is not here. I think that is kind of the end of it, isn't it?

KEY QUOTE
4 MR. COCHRAN:

Neither is the witness.

KEY QUOTE
5 (Brief pause.)
6 (A conference was held at the bench, not reported.)
7 (The following proceedings were held in open court:)
8 THE COURT:

All right. Back on the record in the Simpson matter. All parties are again present. The jury is not present. All right. Deputy Magnera, let's have the jurors, please.

9 (Brief pause.)
10 (The following proceedings were held in open court, in the presence of the jury:)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito
Well, Miss Clark is not here. I think that is kind of the end of it, isn't it?
Dry acknowledgment that proceedings can't continue without the lead prosecutor present.
Johnnie Cochran
Neither is the witness.
Cochran adds that the witness is also absent — a terse, wry observation underscoring the general state of disarray.

Notable Exchanges (1)

Lance A. ItoJohnnie Cochran
Ito notes Clark's absence; Cochran dryly adds the witness is also missing.
dry/wry

Light Moments (1)

Johnnie Cochran
Cochran's deadpan 'Neither is the witness' — a two-word punchline to Ito's rhetorical question about Clark's absence.

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 7677 • 10 utterances
Criminal Trial
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