Bearing Witness (2015)
Bearing Witness
“I’d been hunkered down in my office since seven-thirty that morning grinding through myriad trial preparation tasks. After three hours of that drudgery I needed some physical activity, so I decided to walk to Harold Roth’s apartment. It was just twenty minutes by foot.
He’d told me not to be late, and that was fine with me. I was eager to see his journal and hear any other nuggets of information he was willing to share. If he was willing to talk, I was ready to listen. My briefcase containe...d a fresh legal pad, a portable dictation machine, and three blank cassette tapes. Depending on what he had heard and what he had observed back then, Harold Roth might be an important witness for me. I smiled at the irony of calling Stanley Roth’s uncle to the witness stand.
On the way over to Harold’s apartment I ran through my schedule for the rest of the day. Since I’d be in Jefferson City for most of tomorrow, my pretrial preparation schedule had become even more compressed.MoreLess
He’d told me not to be late, and that was fine with me. I was eager to see his journal and hear any other nuggets of information he was willing to share. If he was willing to talk, I was ready to listen. My briefcase containe...d a fresh legal pad, a portable dictation machine, and three blank cassette tapes. Depending on what he had heard and what he had observed back then, Harold Roth might be an important witness for me. I smiled at the irony of calling Stanley Roth’s uncle to the witness stand.
On the way over to Harold’s apartment I ran through my schedule for the rest of the day. Since I’d be in Jefferson City for most of tomorrow, my pretrial preparation schedule had become even more compressed.MoreLess
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