James Hahn, the Los Angeles City Attorney, appeared as a speaker in two 1995 motion hearings: one concerning access to the Fuhrman tapes and another concerning a subpoena duces tecum and a McKinny recording. At the August 23 hearing, Hahn confirmed that Police Commission representatives had listened to the tapes and reviewed transcripts at counsel's office, but argued that this arrangement was too cumbersome and insufficiently reliable for a proper investigation and sought access permitting review on their own schedule. Judge Lance Ito questioned his authority to provide the materials to nonparties and proposed, subject to the owner's consent, giving Hahn and Darryl Mounger marked copies of the District Attorney's transcript that they could not duplicate and would return within a reasonable time.