That happened after defense attorneys had sent two deposition notices to the state, spelling out that the session would be videotaped and identifying the company that would do the recording.
Defense attorneys tried for five hours that day to get de la Rionda to change his position, telephoned the judge in Sanford several times, and after a five-hour delay, began the deposition without the videotape. They did not complete it.
In Tuesday's paperwork, O'Mara asked the judge to fine de la Rionda $4,000, the amount of money wasted in lawyers' time, as well as that of the court reporter and video operator during that five-hour delay.
The deposition was scheduled for 9:00 AM with a second one 6 hours later for 3:00 PM.
Since they are billing the prosecution then is it fair to assume that the judge sided with the defense on videotaping the Witness 8 deposition.
That means that at best they got through only 1 hour of a scheduled 6 hour deposition. Was that 1 hour on video?? Maybe or maybe not.
But that leaves the rest of the deposition -- perhaps as much as 5 hours of Witness 8 deposition on video -- all to come.
This ploy may very well have backfired on the prosecution.
So the April 2nd hearing has been cancelled, while the court has several motions to consider including the Reconsideration of Benjamin Crump’s Deposition, and while the remainder of the 5 hours of Witness 8’s videotape deposition remains in limbo, and while the defense submits a bill to the prosecution for its 5 hour stalling tactics regarding its star Witness 8, and while the deadline for the submission of the list of witnesses to the court is reached.
Hmmmmm