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Elizabeth Guptill
Witness for the People: Guilt Phase September 8, 2004
Direct Examination by Rick Distaso DISTASO: Ms. Guptill, do you live in the La Loma area of Modesto? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. That's by the Dry Creek Park? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: And during the month of December of 2000 and 2, were you pregnant? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: And how far along were you? GUPTILL: About five months. DISTASO: Let me show you a picture. Judge, this is going to be 225. JUDGE: All right. DISTASO: And we can make it 225 A and B. JUDGE: Okay. So two photographs. 225 A, 225 B. DISTASO: One's a map. JUDGE: All right. DISTASO: And let me just show you this picture of 225 A. Who is that? GUPTILL: That's me, my father and my oldest son. DISTASO: Okay. And that was taken when? GUPTILL: November, 2002. DISTASO: During the month of December of 2002, would you walk in your neighborhood around by the park area? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: Let me show you 225 B. And there's a little map there. GUPTILL: Uh-huh. DISTASO: Does that map accurately reflect the route that you would take kind of throughout the neighborhood? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. And do you -- do you know as you sit here today whether or not you walked on December 24th of 2002? GUPTILL: No. DISTASO: Okay. What do you do for a living? GUPTILL: I teach. DISTASO: Were you on Christmas vacation -- was there a Christmas vacation during the month of December of 2002? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. And were you walking in the neighborhood during your vacation time? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: And when you would go for these walks, who would you normally walk with, if anybody? GUPTILL: I push a stroller with my son in it. DISTASO: Okay. GUPTILL: Or walk by myself. DISTASO: All right. And you -- I can't remember, do you have a dog? Or you don't? GUPTILL: I don't. DISTASO: Okay. Let me just show these pictures real quick. And that's a picture of how you looked in November of 2002? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. And is this a map of the -- the -- is that the route or the areas where you would walk in the neighborhood? GUPTILL: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. Nothing further, your Honor.
Cross Examination by Mark Geragos GERAGOS: Good afternoon. GUPTILL: Good afternoon. GERAGOS: You don't have a dog? GUPTILL: Pardon? GERAGOS: You do not have a dog? GUPTILL: I do not. GERAGOS: You normally would go in the stroller, this stroller that's here? GUPTILL: No. GERAGOS: Different stroller? GUPTILL: A jogging stroller. GERAGOS: Okay. Does your jogging stroller look like this during the summer GUPTILL: No. GERAGOS: It doesn't look like a dog, does it? GUPTILL: No. GERAGOS: Okay. The -- when you -- look like on this map, you drew this map? GUPTILL: No. GERAGOS: Who drew the map? GUPTILL: Who traced it? Oh, I traced -- I traced the line. I did -- I did the highlighting. GERAGOS: Okay. And how about that, where it says: Weekends, holidays, eight to nine a.m., what does that mean? GUPTILL: I didn't write that. GERAGOS: Is that something you said? GUPTILL: Where are you looking? On the bottom? On the right? In the middle? GERAGOS: "Most frequent route," in the middle? GUPTILL: Most frequent route and zigzag through residential streets. Weekends, holidays, eight to nine, after 4:00 p.m. on work days. GERAGOS: Do you know what that means? GUPTILL: Yeah. Do you see the shorter streets that are going vertically? GERAGOS: Yeah. GUPTILL: Zigzag would be like a switchback through those streets. GERAGOS: Okay. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Did you tell the -- you were interviewed in June, June 26th; is that correct? GUPTILL: Uh-huh. GERAGOS: You have to say yes for -- GUPTILL: Yes. GERAGOS: Okay. When you were interviewed, did you tell the officers that when you walk, you walk in the afternoons, at 4:00 o'clock every other day? GUPTILL: Yes. GERAGOS: And that when you walked on vacation days it's between eight and nine? GUPTILL: Yes. GERAGOS: Okay. And when they asked you if you walked on the 24th of December, you told them no; isn't that correct? That you didn't recall whether you walked? GUPTILL: I said I didn't know. GERAGOS: You said you did not? GUPTILL: I did not know. GERAGOS: Okay. And you didn't borrow anybody's Golden Retriever on the 24th, did you? GUPTILL: No. GERAGOS: Thank you. I have no further questions. |