2.Jury Impanelment and Oath

THE COURT: Let's all be seated. So we now have a group of people who have reported to a room, so we'll get sort of an attendance sheet, if you will, as to who of the 90 or so folks who are supposed to come, how many have come, and then they'll hive off a bunch of them and bring them down.

Now, all of you folks who are in the seats, all of those seats will be taken. If you have any kind of disability that requires you to be seated, then indicate that to the CSO and he'll try to find a spot for you, but if you don't have a disability and could stand, we'll need you to stand.

I'm not going to right now preclude people from the courtroom. It will be up to the CSO in terms of space constraints. The family of the defendant is entitled to stay and will not be excluded from the courtroom, but others, it's depending upon the amount of space that we've got. When the jury comes in, we'll need to make room for them so they can sit down. Thank you.

We'll take a break until we hear from Joe about the jury coming in.

THE COURT: Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to now take a lunch break for an hour. And when we come back, I'm going to give you some very brief instructions and then we're going to go right into the opening statements and then after that, we'll start hearing from our first witnesses.

In the meantime, I want to give you one instruction before you go back there and have some lunch. Joe has gotten lunch arranged and he'll give you some preliminary instructions. Because of the timing, we're going to ask you folks to stay here and on this floor and in that jury room for today at least. That's why we arranged to have lunch for you here today.

The instruction I have is not to talk to each other now or at any point in time about this case or anybody else. So if you have got any kind of device where you would communicate with anybody, don't communicate with anybody about this case, don't talk to each other about this case or anybody else that you might run into in the restroom. It's very important that the only information that you have about this case is in this room so you can listen to the evidence as it comes in at this trial.

All right. Right now you can take some lunch.

THE COURT: That you won't be back? That makes sense. Just don't go outside the building. Get the phone.

Joe, why don't you notify the CSOs that that might occur. A CSO might be able to go down with you to facilitate, access the cell phones so the jurors don't have to leave the building. So they can speak downstairs and turn the cell phone back in. We'll see you folks at 2:30 when Joe will have you come back out into the room and you'll take your seat. All right. Thank you.

THE COURT: Let's all be seated. Joe will get things organized back there, but we did have lunch arranged already so they have got -- the jurors have an assortment of luncheon items back there.

Is there anything you folks would like to raise with me before we take our own break?

THE COURT: So as long as defense counsel has seen it and hasn't raised any objections, then that's fine. Thank you for the advance notice.

Is there anything else?

THE COURT: Thank you. We will come back into this room at 2:30. At that point, I will give the normal instructions on burden of proof, credibility, beyond the reasonable doubt, open mind. I'll tell the jury about how I have LiveNote here at my computer and the few basics. That will take about ten minutes, maybe not quite. And then we'll go directly into opening statements without a further break. Let's take our break.

Thank you.