Judge Paige Whitaker has taken the bench for the status hearing.
Right now, Judge Whitaker is asking each defense attorney to introduce themselves.
Here are Brian Steel and Keith Adams introducing themselves.
Whitaker said they want to be efficient with the jury's time and need to sort everything they need to sort out before the jury is brought back.
Whitaker is going through the motions that Brian Steel has filed on behalf of Young , she won't take any motions up today, she just wants to make sure she is not missing anything.
Unlike Judge Glanville, Judge Whitaker has moved the computer screen so it's hard to see her face from where the media is sitting.
Whitaker repeats that she doesn't want to consider any argument today, primarily because the defendants are not in. Steel is trying to inform her of what happened with Copeland still testifying past June 14.
Careton Matthews said the bond motion is the only motions he has filed for Marquavius Huey.
Max Schardt explained to the judge the "Harvey rule", for anyone who doesn't know is basically that any motion file applies to everyone unless they specifically opt out.Schardt also said there should be a hearing to deal with Copeland's testimony and the interrogation videos.
It does sound like Whitaker plans to stick around in this case.
"I've not been following this case until now," Whitaker said.
Whitaker clearly operates differently than Judge Glanville and it sounds like she doesn't want to make rulings "as we go" and wants to make decisions ahead of time and testimony, evidence and other stuff.
Bruce Harvey asks for a timeframe to allow defense attorneys to file any additional motions.
Whitaker said if attorneys are contemplating filing anything, to do so by end of next week.Jury won't come back until at least August 5, Whitaker said.
She wants attorneys to file any motion by Tuesday, July 23 and wants the state to response, if needed, by Friday.Plans to deal with the motions on the week of July 29.
Bruce Harvey is telling Whitaker that since Glanville announced proceedings were halted back on July 1, he has received emails and notifications of his other cases.
Doug Weinstein said they are filing motions by Tuesday.
Adriane Love said they will file motions before Tuesday of next week as well.
Love said they are working through determining the rulings that were made by Glanville orally and make sure it is in writing so Judge Whitaker can know about it.
Love also mentions the exhibits list and making sure they are all on the same page on that. Whitaker seems to hint that they could do this outside of court, but seems like Love doesn't want to do that.
Whitaker said her court reporter is retiring in a week and will have a new court report next week.
Whitaker said she is going to ask Glanville's court reporter to work on the transcripts and get a list of exhibits.
Whitaker said the week of July 29 will be spend arguing motions.
Whitaker plans to hold trial proceedings from 8:45 a.m. and go through 6 p.m. but hasn't decided if it will be all five days. "When I say 8:45, I mean 8:45," Whitaker said.
Whitaker is going through some different things:- Food is allowed in the courtroom, but no snacking while trial is going on- Clothing for defendants needs to be addressed - Minimize disruption in court
"We won't be bored from here on out," Whitaker said about defendants wearing headphones and airpods while in court.
It sounds like none of the defense attorneys could come up with a good reason, so defendants won't be able to have headphones anymore.
Whitaker seems to want to limit disruption while witnesses are testifying (having argument while witnesses are on the stand), which Glanville tried to deal with but wasn't very efficient in doing so.
Whitaker just asked for a list of witnesses, with each count they are testifying about and what they might say.
Whitaker is addressing the fact that sometimes tempers have flared between attorneys and hopes this hiatus of proceedings have allowed them to cool down.
"The state has complied with its discovery obligation," Love told Whitaker.Whitaker said she assumed that all discovery had been exchanged.
Whitaker is encouraging attorneys to talk about the possibility of pleas.
Another hearing to take place on Tuesday at 8:45 a.m.
Correction: The hearing will take place July 30.
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