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By: Stephanie Blount

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As another week comes to a close, the main players in one the biggest media storm trials in the United States are toiling away the weekend in divergent manners. One is taking that long ride back to the prison. The jurors are sequestered from family and friends. The attorneys are hard at work.

The United States district judge, winding up several exhausting days of testimony, wants everyone off the witness stand and out of the courtroom as quickly as possible before lawyers slip in another question The judge's comments brought a smile to the defendant's face. He looks absolutely exhausted from answering thousands of questions in a toneless and emotionless manner. He is currently sitting in a detention center serving out a one to four year sentence. His charge Obstruction of justice. The U.S. Marshals planned to return him there.

The judge told the jury to relax and wished them a good weekend. The jurors will spend the weekend isolated from friends and family. They will get to go for a picnic together over the weekend, under the watchful eye of guards. But for the lawyers who continued to argue with each other and the judge, despite repeated warnings not to, the district judge had some choice words.

"Each of you has done a fairly good job getting the accused to admit his participation in the alleged cover up," the judge stated. It's all in the jury's hands now. They can choose to listen or disregard any testimony given. Will they believe his confession? Will they choose to ignore it? Then, following a recess, he states he really doesn't want the jury to be influenced by the court.

While the jury remained impassive, the defendant retold the same intensely detailed narrative of the cover up that he had testified to at the televised committee hearings. There were a few inconsistencies concerning the relevant timeline. People waited hours to get into the courtroom and watch this historical case. The fighting between lawyers and judge proved to be more interesting than any of the testimony.

Once the jury and the accused had cleared the court, the attorneys went head to head once more regarding the government's responsibility to provide the name of the witness slated to give testimony on Monday. The chief prosecutor stated that he didn't have the name, and reiterated that the government never agreed to give them more than a day's notice. The opposing counsel fired back that there was no reason to withhold the name. He tried to avoid yet another round of debate.

The district attorney looked for a compromise, again. He stated that he wanted to have record of his disagreement with the manner the case had been prosecuted. "Many months have passed while I have had to wait to receive this information." To reduce our efficacy at cross exam, they keep the witness names from us. Their claim that their testimony could be found on the back of a matchbook hardly makes sense when you realize we've provided them with thousands of pages of printed testimony. Exasperated, the district attorney began to suggest that up until that moment, everyone had been quite congenial, which prompted raucous guffaws. At that point, the judge was standing, clearly ready to depart, stating that he is already overly burdened trying to keep the attorneys in check.

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