All right. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. All right. The record should reflect that we have been rejoined by all the members of our jury panel. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason for the delay for about twenty minutes just now was I had to wait delivery of certain document to the court. I have had the opportunity to review those documents, I have made a ruling as to a certain evidentiary issue, and we are ready to start with the next witness, although we have come up on the lunch hour. So we will be ready to proceed with the next witness after we come back from the lunch. Please remember all my admonitions to you. Do not discuss the case amongst yourselves, nor allow anyone to communicate with you with regard to the case. Remember, this is very important, do not allow anybody to communicate with you with regard to the facts and circumstances of the case. All right. We will see you back here after lunch, one o'clock. All right. We are in recess.
Your Honor, over the lunch hour, I prepared a response to the Defense motion for reconsideration with regard to the Fuhrman tapes and filed it just now and served it. So I want the court to be aware that is there so you'll have an opportunity to read it before hearing argument.
About scheduling, yes, so we're all on the same wave length. Two things. So the court is aware, we plan to call Mr. Blasini next, and I'm ready to proceed with him. He will be followed by Mr. Rokahr if the court pleases. And then, although Miss McKinny is here, I'd like to read to the court something and for the court to think about because I'd like to reiterate what I said about Roderic Hodge. This is very brief, and I'll ask the court to allow me to read this. It can be found on page 18899 of the transcript, your Honor.
"Question by Mr. Bailey: And you say under oath that you've not addressed any black person as a Nigger or spoken about black people as niggers in the past 10 years, Detective Fuhrman? "Answer: That's what I'm saying, sir." What I didn't articulate well enough this morning when I was talking to you was this. Hodge is the only witness on our Defense list who can testify that Fuhrman used the "N" word in addressing him as an African American. Everyone else talks about conversation. This is the only witness. And I think you read that--read the question, and that impeaches him directly on that point of addressing an African American. It's the only one we recall. I think it makes it a lot easier court's decision for your Honor. Because I'm going to ask, your Honor, when we get to that point to allow us to call Hodge for this limited area, and then we would like to argue the motions with regard to McKinny obviously because what you ruled on those motions as they're prepared will bear upon what we do and what we play for this jury, if anything. And so that's the order we would like to proceed in, your Honor.
Sure. I just wanted to alert the court because you were talking about 5:00 o'clock and I thought at 5:30, I'd bring this to your attention. We're ready to proceed.
Hodge is the only witness on our Defense list who can testify that Fuhrman used the 'N' word in addressing him as an African American. Everyone else talks about conversation. This is the only witness.
Question by Mr. Bailey: And you say under oath that you've not addressed any black person as a Nigger or spoken about black people as niggers in the past 10 years, Detective Fuhrman? Answer: That's what I'm saying, sir.
The reason for the delay for about twenty minutes just now was I had to wait delivery of certain document to the court. I have had the opportunity to review those documents, I have made a ruling as to a certain evidentiary issue.