Lucy Koh, the judge presiding over the trial that Samsung and Apple opened in the US, had a more than unusual remark yesterday when Apple's lawyers presented the list of witnesses they want to call in the trial. The judge lost her temper in a previous session, and yesterday she, he asked Apple's lawyers if they are drugged, the reason being the long list of witnesses that the lawyers would like to question in the trial. The problem was that Apple's lawyers had 75 pages of briefs for the witnesses they wanted to call in just 4 hours and the judge rightly lost her composure in front of the lawyers' action.
"I am not going to be running around trying to get 75 pages of briefings for people who are not going to be testifying," US District Judge Lucy Koh told Apple's lawyer Bill Lee. "I mean come on. 75 pages! 75 pages! You want me to do an order on 75 pages, (and) unless you're smoking crack, you know these witnesses aren't going to be called when you have less than four hours," Koh said. "Your honor, I can assure you, I'm not smoking crack," Lee replied matter-of-factly.
The two sides each have 25 hours to present their cases before the judge, Apple has 6.5 hours and Samsung only 1.5 hours, and these hours can now be used to bring new witnesses and attack all the evidence presented by the lawyers. After these hours, the companies will have 2 more hours for the final pleas, and then the jury will decide who will win the case. In the last few days, the lawyers of the companies tried to force the court to accept dozens of documents that could not be presented, which is the reason why the judge had some nervous outbursts.
