Trial Day 1

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Just a second, please. Y'all can have a seat for a second. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please have a seat. Welcome back to the second day of trial in, uh, case number [paper rustling] 26 CR 88, uh, State of Ohio versus Caleb C. Flynn. Uh, we were over here in the safety building. Um, and we are gonna begin, um, today with an agenda, and I'm gonna go over that with you here in a second. But, um, get comfortable. You... As you can tell, there were some, um, manila envelopes on your seats. I will explain what those are for as... here in, uh, just a few minutes. But, um, get comfortable, turn off your phones. Make sure that they're completely turned off. That goes for the gallery as well, and the attorneys. Um, our agenda today will be that the court will further instruct you on some, uh, law in... that will be applicable in this case. Um, then the counsel will present their opening statements. Um, and then we will conduct a jury view of the residence that's at issue in this case. So, ladies and gentlemen, um, we are here, um, and we are about to, uh, hear opening statements of counsel and begin to take evidence. Uh, it, I believe it would be helpful if you have some preliminary instructions so that you can follow along and listen and consider the evidence that you will hear in this case. Later, after you've heard all the evidence, the court will fur- and the closing arguments of counsel, the court will further instruct you on the law that will be applicable in this matter. It is the duty of the judge to instruct you on the law, and it is your duty to follow the law, as I will state it to you both now and at the conclusion of the trial. You have the exclusive duty to decide all questions of fact submitted to you. In connection with this duty, you must determine the effect and the value of the evidence. You must not be influenced in your decision by sympathy, prejudice, or passion towards any party, witness, or attorney in this case. If, in these instructions or the instructions that I will give you at a later time, any principle or idea is repeated or stated in varying ways, no emphasis is intended, and you should not infer any. Therefore, you must not single out any particular sentence or individual point or instruction and ignore the others. You are to consider the instructions as a whole, and are to consider each instruction in relationship to the other instructions. The fact that I gave you some instructions now and will give you some instructions at the end of the case has no significance. It's just really im- It's, uh ... It has no significance, and as to the relative importance of the, um, instructions, nor does the order in which I give the instructions, um, to you have any, any significance. The attorney for the parties will, of course, have active roles in this case and during the trial. They will make opening statements to you, question witnesses, and make objections, and will finally argue the case as the last step before you hear my instructions and commence your deliberations. Now remember, the attorneys are not witnesses. And since it is your