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22-82-12-Cr-117, the Commonwealth v. Karen Reed.

So good morning. I see all counsel are present. I see all counsel are present.

Nobody said anything to Mr. Clerk about needing to see me, but I received four motions over this weekend that I assume we need to at least talk about briefly.

Commonwealth's motion regarding defense opening statement. I think the first two motions

we can do quickly. I'm not issuing an order. Mr. Brennan, the defense knows third party

culprit will not be in the opening. If you think that that, that their opening goes beyond it you can object defendants

opposition to the Commonwealth's request for use of independent readers because

there's an objection the defendant's motions allowed so you will not have an

independent reader is it fair to say that the third and fourth motions, Commonwealth motion to enforce compliance

with court's April 16th ACCA discovery order and the Commonwealth's motion to preclude new expert testimony or alternatively to continue the trial date that those motions will take

a little bit of time, Mr. Brennan?

I don't think I'll be long in my argument.

I think that I need more information on one of them.

And I think we'll do that at the end of the trial.

I mean, at the end of today, we'll hear both these motions.

Mr. Jackson, I did see that a list of text messages, 100 or so, is in your response to my

order on Friday.

Did you provide the text messages themselves?

All right.

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