Attorney Stephen Owens, left, and his client Gwyneth Paltrow, in a courtroom in Park City, Utah on March 29, 2023. (Law&Crime Network)
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lead attorney raised concerns about another camera focused on her award-winning client Wednesday afternoon in the Utah courtroom where she is on trial for negligence in a 2016 skiing accident with a retired ophthalmologist.
Time was of the essence late in the day as each side tried to make a case to Judge Kent Holmberg why they should be allowed more time to argue their case before the Park City jurors.
Amid one such suspension dealing with the issues, defense attorney Stephen Owens said he had “an objection to make on court television.”
The judge wanted to deal with the complaint “at the end of the day”, but acceded to the lawyer and let him raise the issue as he rose from his chair, demanding to deal with the matter immediately.
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“Okay,” Holmberg said.
“We had two breaches of the order of decorum,” Owens said. “I’m reporting a third right now.”
Confusion ensued as the judge and attorney sought to clarify which outlet was responsible for the alleged offence.
“Sometimes it’s hard for me to say it, your honor,” Owens said.
The judge replied, “If it’s a set photographer, it’s not Court TV.”
The lawyer said it was not a photographer and alleged that “two individual reports” had been made on the issue of decorum.
“There’s a direct camera to my client’s face in the last – for the last testimony,” Owens said. “I wasn’t speaking, and it was just focused on her. Direct violation of how the court interpreted the decorum order.
Holmberg asked the attorney for a photo of the alleged offense, but Paltrow’s team did not have documentary evidence at hand, a member of his team said, off-camera. Owens asked to try to get them.
“Okay, that’s noted,” the judge said. “And I will ask Court TV to – if they need clarification on the order of decorum to ask for it – but, if not, they should only go to the lectern and the witness. Unless an objection is made at the lawyers’ table, then they may show the lawyers’ table. »
This isn’t the first time Paltrow’s legal team has complained about a camera in the courtroom.
On the second day of the trial, Owens raised concerns about “a new camera pointed directly at my client.”
The attorney and the judge determined that the first offending camera was from the Associated Press.
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The plaintiff’s attorney, Robert Sykes, later complained that “eight or 10” objections to the decorum order had been raised by Paltrow and asked if they could be credited at the time. The judge declined to do so, he said, because time is only taken on either side when jurors are present, and decorum complaints were only filed during holidays.
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