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By Lonce LaMon - March 21, 2012

It was an incredibly nippy morning for Downtown Los Angeles just this past Monday, March 19th, as I walked from my car to Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.  I remember regretting that I wasn't wearing my fur coat.

As Kelly Soo Park and her entourage, along with her defense attorneys, the district attorneys, and this writer, waited in the court room of Department 109 just before 9 am, I could hear the court clerk explaining to someone that it’s always freezing in this court room on Monday mornings. Well, it was colder still due to the frigid outside air, in my opinion.

Kelly Soo, in her usual and customary black pants, this day wearing alligator checked flat shoes, still had on her long off-white trench coat with a multi-colored light weight wool scarf wrapped around her neck.  She was at the center aisle end of the bench in the third row back, ready to be called.  Her beautiful long black hair fell below her shoulders with its usual silky and shiny luster.
 
Ms. Park is still in the pre-trial discovery phase of her case as she awaits trial for the March 15, 2008 murder of aspiring model and actress Juliana Redding.  It is believed by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office that she was the hit-woman who carried out a murder-for-hire for orthopedic surgeon and major workers' compensation fraudster, Dr. Munir Uwaydah, who fled the country upon Kelly Soo Park’s arrest in June of 2010.  She is now out of custody on a 3.5 million dollar bond. 
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy walked away from the clerk’s desk and up to her bench with her robe almost hanging off her shoulders. At first glance, I didn't even think she had it on.
 


Judge Kathleen Kennedy
:  Kelly Park?
 
Kelly Soo then obediently stepped forward to join her two attorneys, Alena Klimianok and Stephen Bernard, at the defendants’ end of the table.   Alan Jackson and Eric Harmon, the two deputy district attorneys prosecuting this case, were already at the right side of the table, from the audience’s perspective.
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy:  Have you guys worked out any of this?
 
She was talking about the discovery issues, which have been a huge bone of contention between the defense and the district attorneys for months now. 
 
Stephen Bernard:  We have three motions to compel.  Five items.   They’ve given us number two.  The pillow.
 
We’re asking for the protocol from the LAPD for collection of evidence.  For storage.  We would like to have those.  They’re on following how they collected evidence at the crime scene. 
 
Stephen Bernard also wants the photographs of the candles.  The candles that were found inside Juliana Redding’s apartment at the crime scene.  According to police reports, the stove gas was left on in the kitchen of the apartment with a candle lit in the living room in a conjectured attempt to cause an explosion that would destroy the evidence. 
 

Josh Herman, Kelly Soo Park's bail bondsman, is a mainstay in her entourage.  Here the big man leaves the court house with Kelly Soo's lead defense attorney, Stephen Bernard. 
 
Eric Harmon:  The protocols are not relevant.  If a forensic expert didn’t follow protocol, it has no bearing on the results. 
 
Alan Jackson:  I spoke with the Detective and it’s a binder yea thick. 
 
The Detective he's referring to is most likely Karen Thompson of the Santa Monica Police Department. 
 
Now, Kathleen Kennedy started expressing herself with noticeable anger.  She’s really getting mad.  In fact, she’s pissed. 
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy:   I think that you should turn it over!  How would that apply as irrelevant?
 
Stephen Bernard:  We’re only looking for that narrow protocol for collection preservation and storage.  And another one was a pink wash cloth.  The DA says it wasn’t tested.  He says he’ll get it tested.  And then there was a sexual assault test kit. 
 
Then they get into quite a to-do about the pink wash cloth.   According to DA Eric Harmon, the police didn’t have the pink wash cloth tested because they didn’t think it was worth anything forensically as evidence.  Then, the Defense asked for it, as they wanted to test it.  So, the DA then wanted to test it. 
 
The judge is really angry now and she just keeps yelling at the DAs.
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy:  It may be that all this leads to nothing, but who knows?  But turn it over!  I’m ordering it turned over!  It’s discoverable! 
 
Eric Harmon:  If we can come back in a few weeks, I’ll have the best idea of when I’ll have the material. 
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy:  Now that they want it, you want to test it. 

Eric Harmon:  The pink wash cloth, we had it evaluated.   We had to scramble.
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy:  I can’t say this particular wash cloth means nothing to the case. 
 
Then, someone’s cell phone starts ringing in the court room.  Or what sounds like a cell phone.  The judge is now angrier than ever.  She calls out to the people in the audience seats to turn off that darned cell phone.   Kelly Soo Park pipes up from the defense table and says it’s hers and she can’t turn it off.  Kelly Soo then runs back to her purse in the audience seats next to her mother and grabs the device.  The judge then angrily asks her why she can’t turn it off and that if she can’t turn if off she should never bring it into the court room in the first place but should leave it in her car. And she rants a little more… 
 
Then Kelly Soo explains that it’s her tracking device.  She can’t turn it off.   It’s the tracking device!   Probably the device that needs to stay close to her ankle bracelet.  Something has set it off.
 
Judge Kennedy then realizes she has flown off the handle about a cell phone for nothing and calms down.   The device continues to ring and ring as Kelly Soo sits down with it at the defendant’s table with no power to shut it up.   Finally after a while it stops ringing.  
  
Judge Kennedy expresses that she wants this trial to start.
 
Judge Kennedy:  I want this to go to trial! 
 
She nearly yells.   She asks the DAs how long they need to get ready for trial and they reply three weeks.  The defense states they need five to six weeks. 
 
Eric Harmon:  In our view, we have diligently complied with discovery.  They should have tested these things 6, 7 months ago. 
 
Eric Harmon further expresses that Kelly Soo’s prior counsel should have requested these things.  Jennifer Keller and Kay Rackauckas represented Kelly Soo Park up until last Fall when they resigned over a $100,000 payment which came to them from Dr. Uwaydah’s Frontline Medical. 
 

Kelly Soo Park has the ear of her attorney, Alena Klimianok, as she leaves court on Monday, March 19th.  Josh Herman, her bail bondsman, follows behind.
 
Judge Kathleen Kennedy:  Prior counsel had a conflict.  Obviously we want this case to move forward and go to trial.  I’d like to go to trial today.  But there has to be a balance between the rights of the victim and the rights of the defense.  But I don’t want to do a fruitless act and then have the trial be disqualified. 
 
Stephen Bernard:  We got 830 pages of discovery in today.  We want to evaluate the evidence.  We started just a short time ago.  We’ve gotten thousands and thousands of pieces of evidence.  How can we proceed?  We are waiting to get the evidence that we are entitled to. 
 
Eric Harmon:  May the victim’s family speak?
 
I then looked again to check out the Reddings.  Eric Harmon had already said twice before that the victim's parents were here, but the judge had just let it blow by her while she yelled at them about the discovery stuff. 
 
Patricia Redding was right there, with her brownish blonde hair, partially pulled back.  Her husband, Gregory Redding, the pharmacist who wouldn’t do business with Dr. Uwaydah, sat close to his wife with his dark brown hair and very tanned complexion. 
 

It's been four years since Juliana's murder...  And for four years our family has been shattered. 

Patricia Redding

They are a youthful appearing, very attractive couple who appear to be no older than in their late forties.  They both then stood up when the judge finally acknowledged them, and walked to the podium which had been placed just before the audience seats facing the judge.  Patricia is the one who spoke, while Greg Redding lovingly supported her by standing flush against her right side as he touched her back with his left hand. 
 
Patricia Redding:  It’s been four years since Juliana’s murder.  We are here today to voice our concerns.   21 months have passed (since Kelly Soo Park’s arrest and indictment).  And for four years our family has been shattered. 
 
She went on to explain that the defendant has been out of custody on a 3.5 million dollar bond for over a year, during which time Kelly Soo Park has been able to be with her family and share time, holidays, and happiness with them, while she and her husband can never do that with their beloved daughter Juliana ever again. 
 
Patricia Redding:  We have the right to a speedy trial. 

Then the Reddings stepped away and the judge set the next court date to Monday, April 16th 2012.  She wants to get the ball rolling.  She advised the attorneys that they will get full days of trial.  They will start at 9 or 9:15 am and go to 4:15 pm.  The cases go faster here. 
 
Then she discussed how they have to do prescreening of jurors for time qualifications.  And both sides should think about having a witness list. 
 

This foursome heads towards Broadway Street after court on Monday.   From left to right are Josh Herman, Kelly Soo's bail bondsman, Alena Klimianok, her attorney, Stephen Bernard, her lead attorney, and Kelly Soo Park herself. 
 
Okay.  Next court appearance is on Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 8:30 am.  Hopefully this case will get to trial before the beginning of Summer.
 
 
 
 

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