All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes the Prosecution's opening argument to you. What is next is the Defense argument, and what I'm going to do at this time is take an early break as far as you are concerned. As with when the Prosecution argument started, you noticed that they used some demonstrative boards for you that were not actually in evidence, and what I need to do now is to preview the ones that the Defense is going to use to see if they are appropriate and acceptable for use during the course of the argument, so that is what we will be doing here in the courtroom for the next--probably take us about a half hour or so to do that. So I'm going to let you go early for lunch. However, while you are up there at lunch, I'm going to ask that the bailiffs pass out to you a one-page questionnaire, and I have some questions that I wanted to ask of you about the deliberations, and you will notice that we have a new table in the jury room today because we are getting down to the point where we are actually going to start the deliberations shortly in this case. My guess is the way that we are going with the arguments--they are going a little faster than I had anticipated, and my hope is that you will actually have the case in your hands and started deliberations on Monday. That is my hope and expectation. In any event, I'm going to ask you about what your desires are as far as the hours and days of deliberation. Do you want to work a formal 9:00 to 5:00 day? Do you want to work an evening session? Do you want to work on--say, put in a half day or a full day on Saturday? If so, you will have--all the deliberations, by the way, have to be done here in the courthouse and in the jury room. But those are questions that I need to ask of you to see what your feelings are, because obviously you are the ones who are doing the work in this case. Also, I needed to tell you some things about limitations on visitation while deliberations are in progress, and I wanted your thoughts on that as well. So it is a one-page questionnaire. Give it some thought. Keep these answers private to yourself, and when I get your responses, then I will make determinations as to the length of the deliberations and the nature of visitation during deliberations. All right. So you all remember my admonitions to you. Don't discuss the case among yourselves, don't form any opinions about the case, don't conduct any deliberations until the matter has been submitted to you, and don't allow anybody to communicate with you with regard to the case. Fill out the questionnaire. Have a nice lunch. And we will see you back here at 1:30 and we will start the Defense argument at 1:30. All right. Have a nice lunch.
My guess is the way that we are going with the arguments--they are going a little faster than I had anticipated, and my hope is that you will actually have the case in your hands and started deliberations on Monday.
you noticed that they used some demonstrative boards for you that were not actually in evidence, and what I need to do now is to preview the ones that the Defense is going to use to see if they are appropriate and acceptable