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Joan Lee
Witness for the People: Guilt Phase September 9, 2004
Direct Examination by Rick Distaso DISTASO: Miss Lee, Brian Lee is your husband? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: Man who just testified? LEE: Yes, he is. DISTASO: During the month of December of 2002, were you pregnant? LEE: I was. DISTASO: And how far along were you? LEE: Four and a half months. DISTASO: Don't tell me the address, but what street do you live on? LEE: Los Flores Avenue. DISTASO: Would you, would you ever walk with your husband and your dog in your neighborhood in the month of December of 2002? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: And what time of day would you do that? LEE: In the evening time. DISTASO: Okay. Would you walk past some neighbors of yours called the Mitchells? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. And how often do you think you walked with your husband and your dog just in your little part of the neighborhood there? LEE: How often? DISTASO: In December of 2002. LEE: Oh, couple times a week. But not, yeah, a couple times a week. DISTASO: And did you always walk with your husband? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: Okay. Did you always walk with your dog? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: And did you always walk in the evening times? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: Let me show you 229A. Is that, what is that a picture of? LEE: That's me and my dog. DISTASO: Your husband said, had just testified that he ran with your dog. Is this the same dog that he ran with? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: And is this the map here that says, is that the route that you would walk when you would walk in the neighborhood? LEE: Yes, it is. GERAGOS: Is that Bates 3834? DISTASO: This is 3834. GERAGOS: Thank you. DISTASO: Let me just show a picture of your dog. A picture of your dog. That's a picture of you and your dog? LEE: Yes. DISTASO: Is that a picture of back when you were pregnant, or is that a more recent picture? LEE: That was after, I believe. DISTASO: Okay. Is that the pic, who took that picture? LEE: Detective Grogan. DISTASO: When the detectives came and talked to you, then they are the ones that took that picture? LEE: Yeah. DISTASO: No further questions, your Honor.
Cross Examination by Mark Geragos GERAGOS: Correct me if I'm wrong. You are absolutely certain you didn't walk on December 24th? LEE: Positive. GERAGOS: And when you do walk, you walk in the evening? LEE: Yes. GERAGOS: You don't walk between the hours of nine and eleven in the morning? LEE: No. No. GERAGOS: And correct me if I'm wrong. I took a look at that dog. Is that dog a Golden Retriever? LEE: It's chocolate Labrador. GERAGOS: Does he change color? LEE: No. GERAGOS: Okay. So he's generally about that color? LEE: Yes. GERAGOS: You were four months pregnant. Were you showing? LEE: Yes. GERAGOS: Okay. How big? LEE: I don't know. GERAGOS: A little bit? LEE: Yeah, a little bit. You could tell I was pregnant. I showed right away. GERAGOS: And, once again, the police interviewed you correct, back in June, of 2003, or at least, LEE: Yeah. In the summertime of 2003. GERAGOS: Okay. May I have just one moment, your Honor? <pause> And when you talked with Detective Grogan back in June of 2003, you told him that you were positive that you didn't walk on December 24th? LEE: Yes. GERAGOS: And the reason that you knew that you didn't walk on the 24th? LEE: Because it was cold and rainy, and I had too much to do. GERAGOS: Okay. And you didn't, didn't you also tell him that you couldn't say for sure how often you walked in December, but you know it was only a couple of times at most? LEE: Right. GERAGOS: And that you didn't walk at all for a week before Christmas? LEE: That would be right, yes. GERAGOS: Because you were working? LEE: Yeah, I was working. GERAGOS: Okay. So basically from the 17th to the 24th, you can say positively that you didn't walk at all? LEE: Positively? No. But probably not. Probably not. DISTASO: Thank you. I have no further questions. JUDGE: Any other questions? DISTASO: No further questions. JUDGE: Miss Lee, thank you very much. |