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Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing Transcripts (Day 2 Part 4) (9/21/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
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  Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to pick up where we left
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  Speaker 1: off with the Tyler Robinson prelim hearing, day number two. Judge,
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  Speaker 1: all right, counsel for defense, are we prepared? And for
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  Speaker 1: the state? Yes, judge. Judge Graff, all right, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Having heard from both counsel, I'll go ahead and review
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  Speaker 1: it on my screens. It's not being displayed in the
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  Speaker 1: monitor in the courtroom, and you may present the 12.1,
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  Speaker 1: the portion you wish for me to view. And just
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  Speaker 1: for the benefit of the record, Do you want to
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  Speaker 1: put on the record the timestamp of what you're playing?
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  Speaker 1: At what point you're starting and stopping? As we go
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  Speaker 1: or when we finish is fine. I just want the
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  Speaker 1: record to be complete. Answer by prosecution. There is a
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  Speaker 1: difficulty in doing that. It's because we've zoomed in. It's
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  Speaker 1: removed the timestamp on it. Judge Graf, well, you can
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  Speaker 1: just give me. Prosecution, the count. Judge Graf, the count
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  Speaker 1: on the bottom. That's the timer at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the total length of the video. So that's fine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to create a record of exactly what I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at. Question, Agent Hall. Can you see it? Agent, yes. Question, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's just... I'm good with playing it, Judge. It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: We'll play it. Go ahead, Kimberly. It starts playing. Judge Graff,
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  Speaker 1: all right. And it's been paused. And it looks like
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  Speaker 1: at 6 minutes and 23 seconds. Prosecution, I'm sorry, Judge.
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  Speaker 1: At 8.23, we stopped the video. Judge, oh, oh, 8.23, okay. Prosecution, 823.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the count on the video itself. Judge, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Prosecution, Agent Hull. Were you able to watch
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  Speaker 1: that zoomed in version? Is that right? Answer, yes, sir. Question, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And was there anything that stood out watching that zoomed version? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: for me, on the zoomed version, it's apparent that Mr. Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: the individual jumping off the roof, is carrying an item. Question, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And can you see clear the clothing that he's wearing?
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  Speaker 1: To this, Kathy Nestor objects. Object to leading. Prosecution, strike that. Judge, prosecution,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to respond to the objection? It's easier
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  Speaker 1: to see. We'll strike that, judge. I'll let the video
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  Speaker 1: speak for itself. Judge, I have nothing further with the agent.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Nestor, just one moment, your honor. If I may
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  Speaker 1: have the court's indulgence, thank you, your honor. Do we
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  Speaker 1: want to take? So they take a break. Now they
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  Speaker 1: come back. And they're back in session. Kathy Nestor doing
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  Speaker 1: the questioning. You and I have met before, but just
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  Speaker 1: to remind you, my name's Kathy Nestor. I'm one of
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  Speaker 1: the attorneys representing Mr. Robinson. So when did you leave
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  Speaker 1: the SBI? Answer, the State Bureau of Investigation. Question, yeah. Answer,
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  Speaker 1: March of this year. Answer, yes. Question, and your new
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  Speaker 1: position at Post, what's your new position? Answer, I'm an
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  Speaker 1: investigative sergeant. Question, so you investigate potential wrongdoing... Of police officers? Answer, correct. Question, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So when you were first brought into this case in September,
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  Speaker 1: it's my understanding from your testimony that you were not
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  Speaker 1: engaged in any way with this event prior to getting
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  Speaker 1: a call from the shooting. Is that correct? Answer, correct. Question,
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  Speaker 1: so does SBI on occasion assist other agencies with preparing
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  Speaker 1: for big events like this or not? Is that typically
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  Speaker 1: something you do? Answer, not something I've been involved with, no. Question, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and what time did you arrive on campus that day? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was shortly after 1.30. Question, so approximately
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  Speaker 1: an hour after Mr. Kirk had already been removed. Answer, approximately, yes. Question, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and were you involved in putting up any drones into
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  Speaker 1: the air? Were you part of that or were you
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  Speaker 1: not involved in that? Answer, I was not, no. Question,
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  Speaker 1: so how quickly after you arrived on scene did you
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  Speaker 1: become aware that you were actually going to be in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the scene? Answer, I believe it was approximately
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  Speaker 1: an hour after. So what, would have been approximately 2.30? Question,
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  Speaker 1: so for the first two hours, you were not in charge? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: for the first two hours, I wasn't. I didn't arrive
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  Speaker 1: until 1.30, so no. Question, okay. And once you came
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  Speaker 1: from on high, that you were basically going to be
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  Speaker 1: in charge of the scene, what was your first priority?
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  Speaker 1: What were you focused on? Answer, we were focused on,
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  Speaker 1: through our major crimes team and our lieutenant, putting together
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  Speaker 1: an investigative team and developing initial assignments and a plan
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  Speaker 1: as to what we're going to do moving forward. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and part of that is protecting any potential forensic evidence
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  Speaker 1: that may be found on the scene. That's clearly important, right? Answer, correct. Question,
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  Speaker 1: preserving the scene, right? Answer, correct. Question, but it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like that's not really your area. That was maybe more...
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  Speaker 1: Agent Falmina's area? Answer. Agent Falmina was assigned to process
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  Speaker 1: and document the crime scenes. It was my understanding that
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  Speaker 1: the known scenes at the time amid the chaos had
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  Speaker 1: been contained and had been secured on the campus and
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  Speaker 1: by the campus officers who were already on scene. Question.
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  Speaker 1: And what's your understanding of what the known scenes were?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, the area where there might potentially be
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  Speaker 1: evidence that you needed to process? Answer. I know that
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  Speaker 1: at the amphitheater area was cordoned off and managed as
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  Speaker 1: best I could with the number of people that were there.
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  Speaker 1: I also made aware that there was a rooftop area
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  Speaker 1: that had been secured and also an area off to
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  Speaker 1: the side of the building that had been secured by
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  Speaker 1: an officer. Question, and that building was the Losey building? Answer, correct. Question,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there also a bullet found on another building? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I believe an unfired bullet had been found on another
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  Speaker 1: building at some point during my time there on September
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  Speaker 1: 10th Yes. Question. And which building was that, sir? Answer.
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall. Question. Was that considered a scene? Thought
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  Speaker 1: it was worth preserving? Answer. It was not. My recollection
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  Speaker 1: is that was accounted for as an ejected cartridge from
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  Speaker 1: an officer who had cycled his rifle. Answer. Okay. I
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  Speaker 1: thought you said it was an unfired bullet. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: saying it was a cartridge? Answer. That's correct. When a
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  Speaker 1: weapon is cleared, an officer would make his rifle ready,
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  Speaker 1: which would chamber around. Question. Okay. I got you. Answer,
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  Speaker 1: my understanding was that's how that was accounted for. Question,
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  Speaker 1: so an officer claimed the bullet belonged to him or her? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: that's my recollection, is that that's how it was accounted for. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and when was it accounted for? Answer, I don't know specifically. Question,
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  Speaker 1: do you remember what type of bullet that was? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Question, was it a. 30- 06, do you remember? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Question, okay, do you know where that bullet
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  Speaker 1: is now? Answer, I don't. Question, okay, so you had
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  Speaker 1: the amphitheater area that had to be preserved, and how
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  Speaker 1: far out did that stretch? The entire amphitheater? Or just
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  Speaker 1: the area around the tent, or what? Question, my understanding
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  Speaker 1: was the entire amphitheater was cordoned off, and there were
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  Speaker 1: attempts to secure the campus itself with a perimeter of
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  Speaker 1: officers who were monitoring or preventing people coming and going. Question,
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  Speaker 1: when you arrived on the scene, were you aware that
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  Speaker 1: an individual had been taken into custody? Answer, I had
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  Speaker 1: heard that, yes. Question, did you ever have any interaction
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  Speaker 1: with that individual? Answer, I did not. Question, and were
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  Speaker 1: you advised at any point that the person was no
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  Speaker 1: longer a person of interest? Answer, information was passed down
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  Speaker 1: that the individual was not considered to be a suspect
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  Speaker 1: in the shooting. Question, and when was that time-wise? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall specifically, but I know on campus when
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  Speaker 1: I had heard that. Question, so whoever arrested him as
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  Speaker 1: a potential suspect got that wrong. He wasn't an actual suspect, right? Answer. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: got what wrong? Kathy Nestor, that he was the shooter. Answer.
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  Speaker 1: The person I believe to be the shooter was not
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  Speaker 1: the individual who was taken into custody. Correct. Question. And then,
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  Speaker 1: was there anybody else taken into custody as a live
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  Speaker 1: person of interest? Answer. There were several people who were
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  Speaker 1: detained for questioning and who were interviewed throughout the investigation. Question.
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  Speaker 1: And none of those other people were ultimately, they were
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  Speaker 1: all ultimately cleared by you or somebody connected with you. Answer. Correct. Question.
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  Speaker 1: And were there any other guns confiscated on the scene
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  Speaker 1: that day? Answer, there were other firearms that were located
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  Speaker 1: on the scene, yes. Question, and how many guns were
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  Speaker 1: confiscated that day? Answer, I don't know specifically confiscated, but
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  Speaker 1: I know that there was a firearm found in a
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  Speaker 1: backpack that was accounted for during that day. Question, what
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  Speaker 1: type of firearm was it? Answer, a handgun. Question, any
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  Speaker 1: other guns found at the scene? Answer, not that I recall. Question,
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  Speaker 1: do you recall an individual named Noah Gonzalez being involved? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall that name specifically. Question, let me see
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  Speaker 1: if it refreshes your memory that he was an off-duty,
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe, trooper that was on the scene that
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  Speaker 1: day and that was involved in recovering the holster. Does
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  Speaker 1: that refresh your memory? Answer, I know that a trooper
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  Speaker 1: was interviewed, having been on scene. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it was Gonzalez. I don't recall the name, but I
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  Speaker 1: do know that there was a trooper that was interviewed, yes. Question, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and just a moment, Your Honor, and do you recall
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  Speaker 1: a trooper that was interviewed saying, that there was actually
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  Speaker 1: a gun found in the holster? Answer, I do not. Question,
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  Speaker 1: you do not. Answer, no. Question, okay. Can we pull
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  Speaker 1: up Exhibit Poll 13 and just show it only to
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  Speaker 1: the witness for right now? All right. Can we go
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  Speaker 1: to page two of that report? Do you recognize this report?
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  Speaker 1: Have you reviewed it as part of your investigation duties? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I do recognize the report now, yes. Question, okay. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a report prepared. by actually Mr. Davis, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to testify later in this matter, is that right? Answer, correct. Question, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and on page two, this is the interview of Noah Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 1: is that right? Answer, that's what it stated on page one, yes. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and he's an off-duty trooper who happened to be there
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  Speaker 1: that day. Answer, correct. Question, and do you see on
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  Speaker 1: the second paragraph does that refresh your memory about whether
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  Speaker 1: trooper gonzalez believed there was a gun found in a
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  Speaker 1: holster in the area of the amphitheater answer trooper gonzalez
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  Speaker 1: included in his report that there was a gun yes
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  Speaker 1: question okay thank you okay when did you first personally
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  Speaker 1: go up to the roof of the losi building do
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  Speaker 1: you remember the time Answer, I don't recall. I know
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  Speaker 1: it was dark when I went up on the roof,
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  Speaker 1: so it would have been later in the evening. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and at the time you went up there, there was
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  Speaker 1: already crime scene tape that had been placed around it? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: there was. There was an officer standing security. Question, alright.
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  Speaker 1: And to your knowledge, as the head of the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: did they ever find any bullets or casings anywhere on
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  Speaker 1: the Losey roof? Answer, not to my knowledge. Question, did
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  Speaker 1: they ever find any bullets or casings anywhere around the
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  Speaker 1: Losey building? Answer, when you say around the Losey Building.
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  Speaker 1: You mean how close? Immediately around the Losey Building? Answer
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  Speaker 1: or question? Correct. Answer, not to my knowledge. All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up right here. And in the
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  Speaker 1: next episode, dealing with the topic we're going to pick
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  Speaker 1: up where we left off. All the information that goes
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