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Today, Plaintiffs’ Counsel David Boies will continue his cross-examination of Defendant-Intervenors’ expert witness David Blankenhorn. We will see if Mr Blankenhorn has become better acquainted with his ‘listening ears’ as Judge Judy says to unruly folks in her courtroom. We will also see if Mr Boies has a better time obtaining answers to his cross exam questions in the format he prescribes. And we’ll see what Judge Vaughn Walker does to help wrap testimony up by lunchtime, as that appears to be his goal today.
Tune in to Liveblog Number 46 when we begin in court this morning shortly after 8:30am pacific time. This will likely be the last testimony in the case; Mr Cooper will attempt to rehabilitate his expert witness after Mr Boies’ cross. And then we will take a break while Judge Walker reviews the voluminous exhibits and eleven days of testimony, to resume at a later date for closing arguments from plaintiffs’ counsel, defendants’ counsel (possibly) and defendant-intervenors’ counsel.
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I hope Blankenhorn is wearing adult diapers today.
I hope he doesn’t get in an argument with Vaughn Walker again today. That did not go over well with the audience of one the Defendant-Intervenors hope to convince of Blankenhorn’s expertise.
Well, actually I do hope he does.
Thanks for your hard work all!!
Does anyone have any info on the “Who? What & Why” surrounding the person being ejected from the court yesterday? Haven’t found anything on any of the live blogs here or elsewhere, or tweets from yesterday. I am guessing by when it occurred that it was a Prop 8 Supporter.
GREAT job Teddy and all. Someone commented yesterday that this was probably better than any YouTube video version that we could have ever possibly had to watch (piece by piece). This is MUCH better than wading through +/- 7 hours of daily testimony. You are like Angels for being there and doing this. Perhaps not Cahrlie’s, maybe more like “Harvey’s Angels!”
The Plaintiff’s Proposed Findings of Fact can be found at:
http://legalpad.typepad.com/files/plaintiff-proposed-facts.pdf
This is what the plaintiffs have hoped to show with their witnesses and the cross-examination of the defendant’s witnesses.
The court screamer had screamed, “return marriage to Jesus!”. He was also discovered screaming his lungs out elsewhere in the city. This was reported on a local television news channel. They didn’t mention what group the man was affiliated with.
Just for the record, my mother used to take me and my two brothers to the court house on weekends for fun. We used to all crack up from disbelief. We loved it so much that when “Mommy” would ask us what we wanted to do each weekend, we would actually choose live court theater over the movies, the zoo, and other things kids love to do. But in all my years of evidencing a trial, this beats them all out hands down!
Showing my age, I remember Mum avidly watching something she called “Trial by Jury” and of course, she never missed Perry Mason! I guess part of my interest in this trial (beyond, of course, the subject matter!) is the activity as well.
Thanks for that link.
Had one of those ‘Aha moments’ last night when I got into bed. Moss’ wardrobe change actually (or, at least, it was supposed to) complimented the witness’ testimony of marriage being about procreation and children.
It was an emotional ploy to help sway the non-existent jury. Walker is too good an attorney to fall for that.