WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:59.5240000" NOTE recognizability:0.866 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.925 Tatiana, Jefferson's family has waited NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:01.925 --> 00:00:04.467 well over two years for the man NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:04.467 --> 00:00:06.651 charged in her death to go on trial. NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:08.210 In those 32 months, demonstrators NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:08.210 --> 00:00:10.070 have demanded justice in her name, NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:10.070 --> 00:00:12.550 but the case has been delayed several times, NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:12.550 --> 00:00:14.720 right up until a couple weeks ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:16.100 when Aaron Dean's defense team NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:18.440 asked for it to be postponed again. NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:19.596 But later this month, NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:19.596 --> 00:00:21.041 they'll start selecting a jury NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:21.041 --> 00:00:22.701 for the former Fort Worth NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:22.701 --> 00:00:24.017 police officers murder trial. NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:24.020 --> 00:00:25.892 But today there was yet another NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:25.892 --> 00:00:28.048 hearing on this case in Fort Worth, NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:28.050 --> 00:00:30.507 and Tanya Eiser was there for it. NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:30.510 --> 00:00:32.550 Tony, it seems the judge is set NOTE Confidence: 0.85930437 00:00:32.550 --> 00:00:34.290 on starting this trial in June. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:37.590 --> 00:00:39.320 Well, that's right. He certainly is. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:41.350 If I had to describe the judge, NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:41.350 --> 00:00:43.310 I would say he was very testy and NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:43.310 --> 00:00:44.826 pointed the defense attorneys are NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:44.826 --> 00:00:46.436 arguing that they've got cases NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:46.436 --> 00:00:48.278 set in other courts and that NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:50.600 they just cannot go to trial right now. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:52.040 But the defense, the judge, NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:52.040 --> 00:00:53.768 just wasn't having any of it. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:53.770 --> 00:00:54.786 He all you know. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:54.786 --> 00:00:56.680 Last month he did delay the case NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:56.680 --> 00:00:58.516 for about six weeks because the NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:00:58.516 --> 00:01:00.088 the lead defense attorney Jim NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:00.088 --> 00:01:02.153 Lane is sick and in the hospital. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:04.068 But he, he's he reiterated again NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:04.068 --> 00:01:06.617 today that if Jim Lane is still sick. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:06.620 --> 00:01:07.800 Later this month that the NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:08.980 case will have to proceed. NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:08.980 --> 00:01:10.348 The defense attorneys also bringing up NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:10.348 --> 00:01:11.820 that some of their expert witnesses NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:11.820 --> 00:01:13.356 will not be available during this NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:13.356 --> 00:01:14.877 trial setting time and the judge said, NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:16.637 well, that's not part of the motion NOTE Confidence: 0.87776697 00:01:16.637 --> 00:01:18.420 and he didn't want to hear any of NOTE Confidence: 0.88979304 00:01:18.420 --> 00:01:20.284 that either. So let's take a listen to NOTE Confidence: 0.88979304 00:01:20.284 --> 00:01:22.430 some of what the judge had to say today. NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:27.584 And you're not going to dictate NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:27.584 --> 00:01:29.450 the schedule to this court. NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:29.450 --> 00:01:31.250 Mr Gill. First of all, NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:31.250 --> 00:01:33.280 you have alleged potential conflicts NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.459 you have not alleged an actual conflict. NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:36.460 --> 00:01:38.788 This case is set June 21st. NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:38.790 --> 00:01:41.894 You will be in trial. In this case, NOTE Confidence: 0.8922266 00:01:41.894 --> 00:01:44.610 the state of Texas versus Aaron Dean. NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:01:47.890 --> 00:01:50.464 As you can tell from the judges tone, NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:01:50.470 --> 00:01:52.378 he seemed very serious about this NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:01:52.378 --> 00:01:54.030 trial starting later this month. NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:01:54.030 --> 00:01:56.606 A jury questionnaires will be due June 10th, NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:01:56.610 --> 00:01:58.155 and then those questionnaires will NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:01:58.155 --> 00:02:00.759 get a sense of what kind of questions NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:00.759 --> 00:02:02.745 will be asked of potential jurors. NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:02.750 --> 00:02:05.004 Jury selection is scheduled for June 21st, NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:05.010 --> 00:02:06.948 with testimony to begin June 23rd. NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:06.950 --> 00:02:09.274 Another thing that the judge said today NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:09.274 --> 00:02:11.834 that that I had not heard before is NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:11.834 --> 00:02:14.380 he is planning to have this trial span NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:14.380 --> 00:02:15.664 weekends, which is pretty NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:15.664 --> 00:02:16.306 extraordinary thing. NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:16.310 --> 00:02:18.090 He's also said and reiterated. NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:18.090 --> 00:02:20.040 Even today that he plans to NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:20.040 --> 00:02:22.112 sequester this jury once they go NOTE Confidence: 0.85925436 00:02:22.112 --> 00:02:24.210 to deliberations in Tanya, I know NOTE Confidence: 0.75350547 00:02:24.210 --> 00:02:26.238 there's been a long standing gag NOTE Confidence: 0.75350547 00:02:26.238 --> 00:02:28.629 order in this in the Dean case, NOTE Confidence: 0.75350547 00:02:28.630 --> 00:02:31.010 how did that become an issue today? NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:34.750 Well, it did. It became NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:34.750 --> 00:02:36.570 an issue at the end of the NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:36.633 --> 00:02:38.586 at the end of this hearing today NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:38.586 --> 00:02:41.135 so that gag order applies to the NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:41.135 --> 00:02:42.572 defense attorneys, the prosecution, NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:42.572 --> 00:02:44.408 any witnesses and those witnesses attorneys. NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:44.410 --> 00:02:46.228 So the the defense attorneys basically NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:46.228 --> 00:02:48.399 asked the judge to hold Lee Merritt, NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.974 who's one of the one of the civil rights NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:50.974 --> 00:02:52.917 attorneys in contempt for having given NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:52.917 --> 00:02:55.184 interviews to the press and the judge NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:55.184 --> 00:02:57.002 said he would probably consider it NOTE Confidence: 0.87193686 00:02:57.002 --> 00:02:59.524 during a June 13th period back to you.