📄 Opening and housekeeping — Tuesday, July 5, 1994
📅 Jul 5 — Day 3
⚖️ Kathleen Kennedy-Powell🏛️ Marcia Clark🛡️ Robert Shapiro
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Opening and housekeeping

Date: Tuesday, July 5, 1994 • Utterances: 16
Brief housekeeping at the start of a preliminary hearing session. Judge Kennedy-Powell formalized two exhibits (People's 1 and 2) that had been marked for identification but never formally moved into evidence during a prior motion hearing on hair and hair samples. The prosecution also served defense counsel with a response to a motion to suppress.
1 THE COURT:

Good morning.

2 MR. SHAPIRO:

Good morning, Your Honor.

3 MR. UELMEN:

Good morning, your honor.

4 MS. CLARK:

Good morning, Your Honor.

5 MR. HODGMAN:

Good morning, Your Honor.

6 THE COURT:

We are once again on the record in the case of People versus Simpson. The defendant is present with counsel. The people are represented. There is one item of housekeeping, in essence, that I'd like to take care of -- and we did discuss this in chambers and I didn't every follow through back on the record -- and that was with reference to the motion with regard to the hair and the hair samples. The prosecution had marked two exhibits which had never been formally moved into evidence. They were marked for identification only. Those were a couple of articles that Ms. Kestler had referred to. Ms. Clark, do the people want to make a motion with regard to those exhibits at this time?

7 MS. CLARK:

Yes, thank you, Your Honor. The people would ask the court to receive them into evidence for the purpose of that hearing.

8 THE COURT:

Mr. Shapiro, do you wish to be heard?

9 MR. SHAPIRO:

Submit it, Your Honor.

10 THE COURT:

All right. People's 1 and 2 then will be received with regard to that particular motion. Now, with reference to the preliminary hearing we are in progress on, do you have a witness now that you can call?

KEY QUOTE
11 MS. CLARK:

Yes, I do, Your Honor. I would like to apprise the court of the fact that the people have filed a response to the motion to suppress. It was FAX-ed to counsel, and I'd like to also serve counsel on the record with a conformed copy of the motion as well. I'm handing a copy to Mr. Uelmen. It has been filed with the court.

12 THE COURT:

For the record, the court received that about ten minutes ago.

13 MS. CLARK:

Yes.

14 THE COURT:

All right.

15 MR. SHAPIRO:

We received it at 7:26 this morning.

KEY QUOTE
16 THE COURT:

Okay. Call your next witness at this time.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Kathleen Kennedy-Powell
People's 1 and 2 then will be received with regard to that particular motion.
Formally admits the two articles referenced by Ms. Kestler into evidence for the hair-sample motion hearing.
Robert Shapiro
We received it at 7:26 this morning.
Implicitly flags that the prosecution's suppression response was served very late — moments before court — a subtle credibility/fairness point on the record.

Evidence (2)

People's 1
Article referenced by Ms. Kestler during the hair/hair samples motion hearing
formally received into evidence
People's 2
Article referenced by Ms. Kestler during the hair/hair samples motion hearing
formally received into evidence

Notable Exchanges (1)

Marcia ClarkRobert Shapiro
Clark serves a conformed copy of the prosecution's suppression response in open court; Shapiro puts on the record that they received it at 7:26 AM, subtly noting the late notice.
strategic

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 8993 • 16 utterances
Preliminary Trial
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