Jury instructions

📄 Jury instructions — Tuesday, September 5, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 147 of 167

◀ Direct examination of Laura Hart McKinny (part 2) Appearances and opening ▶

Date: Tuesday, September 5, 1995 • Utterances: 8

Judge Ito adjourned court for the day at 5:32 PM, instructing the jury not to discuss the case or form opinions. He also ordered the collection of taped transcripts from jurors and held a brief unreported bench conference with counsel before dismissing everyone until 9 AM the following morning.

# 1 THE COURT:

All right. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take our recess for the day at this time. Please remember all my admonitions to you. Don't discuss the case amongst yourselves, don't form any opinions about the case, don't conduct any deliberations until the matter has been submitted to you, do not allow anybody to communicate with you with regard to the case. We will stand in recess until nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Miss McKinny, you may step down. You are ordered to come back tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.

# 2 MS. MCKINNY:

Thank you very much, Judge.

# 3 THE COURT:

All right. Deputy Bashmakian, would you collect all of the taped transcripts. Let me ask the jurors to pass that all down.

KEY QUOTE

# 4 (Brief pause.)

# 5 THE COURT:

All right. Let me see counsel without the court reporter, please.

# 6 (A conference was held at the bench, not reported.)

# 7 (The following proceedings were held in open court:)

# 8 (At 5:32 P.M. an adjournment was taken until, Wednesday, September 6, 1995, 9:00 A.M.)

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Lance A. Ito

Don't discuss the case amongst yourselves, don't form any opinions about the case, don't conduct any deliberations until the matter has been submitted to you, do not allow anybody to communicate with you with regard to the case.

Standard daily jury admonition, particularly significant given the media saturation surrounding the Fuhrman tapes and McKinny testimony.

Lance A. Ito

Deputy Bashmakian, would you collect all of the taped transcripts. Let me ask the jurors to pass that all down.

The McKinny transcript materials were physically collected from jurors at the end of session, reflecting tight control over sensitive Fuhrman-related evidence.

Evidence (1)

Informal

Taped transcripts of the McKinny recordings

collected from jurors by Deputy Bashmakian at end of session

Notable Exchanges (1)

Lance A. Ito•counsel

Unreported bench conference held after jury was dismissed and transcripts collected

procedural

Witness Demeanor

(Brief pause.)

(A conference was held at the bench, not reported.)

(At 5:32 P.M. an adjournment was taken until, Wednesday, September 6, 1995, 9:00 A.M.)

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 7489 • 8 utterances

Criminal Trial

Department 103