Apple Atty Tells Amused Judge He's Still 'Not Smoking Crack'

Law360, San Jose (August 17, 2012, 1:37 PM ET) -- The mood in U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh's courtroom lightened slightly as the third week of the high-stakes patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. came to a close Friday, with the California judge jokingly asking Apple attorney William Lee of WilmerHale if he was still “not smoking crack.”

The comment was a reference to the judge's explosion Thursday when Apple submitted a lengthy list of defensive witnesses — many of whom were unlikely to actually testify — and Samsung's 75 pages...
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