📄 Lunch recess — Tuesday, September 19, 1995
📅 Sep 19 — Day 157
⚖️ Lance A. Ito
jury
Address:
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TRIAL
▲ Day 157 of 167

Lunch recess

Date: Tuesday, September 19, 1995 • Utterances: 14
A brief administrative proceeding marking the return from the noon recess. Judge Ito called the jury back in and directed FBI Agent Michael Wacks to resume the witness stand. Media representatives from ABC, NBC, CBS, and Times Mirror were also present.
1 (A conference was held at the bench, not reported.)
2 (At 12:05 P.M. the noon recess was taken until 1:00 P.M. of the same day.)
3 (Appearances as heretofore noted; also present, Douglas Mirell, Esquire; Karen N. Frederiksen, representing, ABC, NBC, CBS, Times Mirror.)
4 (Janet M. Moxham, CSR no. 4855, official reporter.)
5 (Christine M. Olson, CSR no. 2378, official reporter.)
6 (The following proceedings were held in open court, out of the presence of the jury:)
7 THE COURT:

Back on the record in the Simpson matter. All parties are again present. All right. Deputy Trower, let's have the jurors, please.

8 MR. KELBERG:

Your Honor--

9 MR. COCHRAN:

Your Honor, there is a couple--

10 THE COURT:

Get them out of the jury box. The jury is coming in, guys. I know we are desperate for volunteers, but--

KEY QUOTE
11 MR. MIRELL:

Not that desperate, your Honor.

KEY QUOTE
12 THE COURT:

Well--

13 (Brief pause.)
14 THE COURT:

All right. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. And Agent Wacks, would you resume the witness stand, please.

Michael J. Wacks, the witness on the stand at the time of the noon recess, resumed the stand and testified further as follows:

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito
Get them out of the jury box. The jury is coming in, guys. I know we are desperate for volunteers, but--
Ito reacts to people sitting in the jury box during the recess, showing his dry wit.
Mr. Mirell
Not that desperate, your Honor.
Quick comeback from media attorney Douglas Mirell, one of the few light moments in the trial record.

Light Moments (1)

Lance A. Ito, Mr. Mirell
Judge Ito jokes that people sitting in the jury box during recess proves they are 'desperate for volunteers'; media attorney Mirell quips back 'Not that desperate, your Honor.'

Witness Demeanor

(Brief pause.)

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 7751 • 14 utterances
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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