Some simply didn't know what they wanted to do, and were being forced to say so in open court.
"And you have heard the charge read by me in open court?"
Is there something we're not supposed to hear in open court?
Could they report this statement because it had been made in open court?
"Is there any reason we are not doing this in open court?"
That's my type of game, to get out in the open court.
But there have been few such problems recently in open court.
Therefore, they did not hear the names in open court.
Nothing was said in open court about the subject of the private conference.
There is an open light court at the center of the building.