The Oklahoma City Bombing Trial Transcripts
Terry Nichols

Monday, December 22, 1997 (afternoon)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
 
Criminal Action No. 96-CR-68
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
 
    Plaintiff,
 
vs.
 
TERRY LYNN NICHOLS,
 
    Defendant.
 

 
                     REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT
                 (Trial to Jury:  Volume 139)

         Proceedings before the HONORABLE RICHARD P. MATSCH,
Judge, United States District Court for the District of
Colorado, commencing at 4:59 p.m., on the 22d day of December,
1997, in Courtroom C-204, United States Courthouse, Denver,
Colorado.




 Proceeding Recorded by Mechanical Stenography, Transcription
  Produced via Computer by Paul Zuckerman, 1929 Stout Street,
    P.O. Box 3563, Denver, Colorado, 80294, (303) 629-9285
                          APPEARANCES
         PATRICK RYAN, United States Attorney for the Western
District of Oklahoma, and RANDAL SENGEL, Assistant U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, 210 West Park
Avenue, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73102, appearing
for the plaintiff.
         LARRY MACKEY, BETH WILKINSON, GEOFFREY MEARNS, JAMIE
ORENSTEIN, and AITAN GOELMAN, Special Attorneys to the U.S.
Attorney General, 1961 Stout Street, Suite 1200, Denver,
Colorado, 80294, appearing for the plaintiff.
         MICHAEL TIGAR, RONALD WOODS, ADAM THURSCHWELL, REID
NEUREITER, and JANE TIGAR, Attorneys at Law, 1120 Lincoln
Street, Suite 1308, Denver, Colorado, 80203, appearing for
Defendant Nichols.
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                          PROCEEDINGS
    (In open court at 4:59 p.m.)
         THE COURT:  Be seated, please.
         We'll recess deliberations assuming that that's the
jury's desire.
    (Jury in at 5:00 p.m.)
         THE COURT:  Members of the jury, good afternoon.
         JURORS:  Good afternoon.
         THE COURT:  We're at the 5:00 hour, which is the usual
time that you have agreed to recess your deliberations for the
day, and I'm assuming that that's what you want to do now.  Is
that correct?
         All right.  Then as usual, I've asked you to return to
the courtroom simply to again remind you that your
deliberations are, of course, secret, to be known only among
the 12 of you, and that you must not now once again during the
time of this recess, while you are permitted to separate and go
your own ways -- you must not discuss your deliberations or
anything about the case, evidence in the case, anything
relating to this case with anyone else.
         And I assume you want to resume again at the usual
time in the morning, so we'll do that under the conditions that
we have followed all along.  And, of course, once again, I must
caution you not to discuss the matter with other jurors,
either.  Wait until you are once again in the jury room with
the foreperson presiding over your deliberations before you
return to the subject matter of your deliberations.  So with
those cautions, members of the jury, you're now excused until
tomorrow morning.
    (Jury out at 5:01 p.m.)
         THE COURT:  We'll be in recess subject to call.
    (Recess at 5:01 p.m.)
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                    REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE
    I certify that the foregoing is a correct transcript from
the record of proceedings in the above-entitled matter.  Dated
at Denver, Colorado, this 22d day of December, 1997.
 

                                 _______________________________
                                         Paul Zuckerman