Echols / Baldwin Trial

Bryn Ridge, 5th testimony

feeds@yuku.com (Christian1977) — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:07:43 GMT

A couple notes on this. "Unknown" does not mean some stranger talking, it just means I'm not sure which of the attorneys it is. the "Unintelligible" ones; sometimes it's because more than one person are talking, but many of them are simply things I can't understand with my non-English born language ears. If someone has the desire and time to listen to the audio and hear anything different than what I typed, please post it.

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Verdict

feeds@yuku.com (Christian1977) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:01:41 GMT

(A few "?" and "inaudibles" in there. Someone feel free to proof it)

The Court: Alright, your verdicts are in good form and reads as follows, and before I announce the verdict, ladies and gentlemen, I understand that theres a great deal of emotion from everyone involved. The courtroom is not a place to display that emotion and I will not tolerate and cannot tolerate a display of emotion, so if you feel the need to express yourselves you need to get up...

Gary Gitchell 2nd testimony

feeds@yuku.com (Christian1977) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:55:54 GMT

(feel free to proof this)
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Gary Gitchell

Direct examination

By Mr. Davidson:

Q: Could you state your name please.

A: Gary Gitchell.

Q: Could you speak up please?

A: Gary Gitchell.

Q: Youre the same Gary Gitchell that testified earlier in this proceeding?

A: Yes sir, thats correct.

Q: And what is your -- where do you work?

A: I work for the West Memphis Police...

Price, closing argument

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:23:31 GMT

THE COURT: All right, court will be in session.

BY PRICE:

Ladies and gentlemen, this will be the only opportunity that I'll have to make a closing argument on behalf of my client, Damien Echols. And the reason for that is because since the State has the burden of proof, Mr. Fogleman did the introductory closing argument and after I do mine, Mr. Ford will do one on behalf of Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Davis will have a chance to get back up here and do the final closing argument....

Dr. James Moneypenny (Penalty Phase)

feeds@yuku.com (anotherwm3addict) — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:16:10 GMT

[Audio picks up in middle of question]

DIRECT EXAMINATION:

BY PRICE:

Q: ...records, medical records, and the ones you just described?

A: Yes.

Q: Was the methods and procedures that you used in analyzing the situation - did that come from any kind of standardized or generally accepted approach in your profession?

A: Yes, it's generally recognized that clinical interviews, psychological testing and review, reviewing records and any other collateral...

Bill Durham, 2nd testimony

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:19:31 GMT

[thanks to sea for transcribing]

(SUDBURY EXCUSED)

(OUTSIDE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY)

THE COURT: Alright, let's uh - let's call the jury back in and finish with -

FOGLEMAN: Bill Durham.

THE COURT: He's back here -

FORD: Your Honor, did he find that list of ten witnesses - ten -

THE COURT: I don't know. Uh - before the jury gets in here, let's resolve that question. Have you got the list of ten witnesses?

FOGLEMAN: Your Honor, they...

Jury Instructions

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:52:12 GMT

THE COURT: All right, bring the jury in.

UNKNOWN: While you're doing the jury instruction, I told 'em not to let anybody in. So it won't interrupt (mumble) you might tell nobody --

THE COURT: Ladies and gentlemen, let me make an announcement. While I'm reading the jury instructions, I don't let anybody go in or out of the courtroom until I'm through. It'll probably take fifteen to twenty minutes, maybe less. It'll depend on how well I can read, I guess. So you're...

Echols/Baldwin audio requests

feeds@yuku.com (WhyDimmi) — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:18:40 GMT

I'd like to try taking requests for trial audio. This thread will be specifically for requests from the Echols/Baldwin trial. Make one post in this thread for each witness you would like to download, and be specific. I will edit a link to the audio into your request and leave it posted for one week. At the end of the week, your post will be deleted.

Be patient as demand may exceed upload space. We'll see how it goes.

Please don't request audio that has not been covered in case...

Ford, penalty phase argument

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 00:21:49 GMT

By FORD:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very difficult thing for me. Because I've been here for a month, advocating a different position. A long time ago, when I went to law school, I believed in the system, and I respect your verdict. But I would ask that you listen to me at this time, as I plead for my client's life.

I've made my arguments, and I've advanced my beliefs and my theories. The prosecutor has advanced his beliefs and his theories. And in your deliberations,...

Fogleman, penalty phase argument

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 00:19:23 GMT

By FOGLEMAN:

May it please the Court, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the total court, I'm gonna be short and from my prior arguments y'all may not think that I'm capable of that, but it will be. Y'all have heard everything and there's not much -- a lot more to, that you can say.

It's extremely important in this case, that when you go back and look at those instructions, that you -- just like the Judge has told you all along -- that you consider each victim separately and...

Jury Instructions, penalty phase

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:44:21 GMT

THE COURT: I will grant allocution, and he will be permitted to make any pronouncement or statement that he cares to, after judgment and after sentence.

UNKNOWN: (INAUDIBLE)

THE COURT: Alright. Anything else? Alright, I'm ready to read the instructions. Alright ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have found both Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin guilty of capital murder. After hearing additional arguments of the counsel -- and I'm going to limit their arguments to twenty...

Davidson, penalty phase argument

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:36:32 GMT

By DAVIDSON:

Ladies and gentlemen, we've been here a long time and I know that you all have gone back and you've made your decision. I don't necessarily agree with that, but I certainly respect your decision and I respect the time that you all took to go back and to take all the evidence that you had before you and make that decision. We ask that you just give a little more time here to make this very, very important decision, that you not do anything hastily here, but that you...

Davis, penalty phase argument

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:31:51 GMT

By DAVIS:

I'm gonna be real brief. But remember when we were back there in voir dire and I asked each and every one of you, "Under the appropriate circumstances, could you and would you consider the death penalty?" And I didn't ask you "Would you put somebody to death?" or "Are you definitely against it?" I said under the appropriate circumstances -- and that's what Arkansas law does, it says under an appropriate set of circumstances, the death penalty...

Bill Durham (Bench Conference 1)

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:11:25 GMT

(SUDBURY EXCUSED)

THE COURT: You got another witness you can do in five minutes?

FOGLEMAN: Five minutes? Let me see if I...let me see.

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PRICE: Judge, if I could approach?

(BENCH CONFERENCE)

THE COURT: Tell him what I said.

FOGLEMAN: Uh -- I didn't --

THE COURT: Okay.

DAVIS: You mean you don't want him to mention the 'P' word?

THE COURT: Yeah.

PRICE: Okay, that's what I was gonna ask. And that he's...

Conference (during Griffis)

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:02:27 GMT

Thanks to Girlene for transcribing.

(GRIFFIS VOIR DIRE PRECEDES)

PRICE: Your Honor, at this time Id like to object. If the juvenile department of Crittenden County has got anything from my client when he was with the juvenile authorities, if thats confidential, and if that material has been turned over to the prosecuting attorneys office, which has been turned on over...

State Rests

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:17:12 GMT

(DONNA MEDFORD EXCUSED)

THE COURT: Call your next witness.

FOGLEMAN: Your Honor, we would offer State's Exhibit 123.

(COUGHING, MUMBLING)

FORD: I assume this relates to Echols only?

THE COURT: I don't know. I don't know what it is. You're going to have to let me see it. But if it is, then I'll give that same instruction.

PRICE: Judge, we'll object to this, based on best evidence rule and also based, this isn't an original document. We also object to...

Bench Conference (2)

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:14:59 GMT

THE COURT: Alright, the audience is gonna have to either have a seat or get out. One or the other. Alright, go ahead.

DAVIDSON: Ready, your Honor? Ok. Yesterday we received, uh, we'd asked many times about something from --

THE COURT: Wait. The record should reflect this is out of the hearing of, in presence of the jury. Alright, go ahead.

DAVIDSON: Thank you, your Honor. Several times we had requested from the West Memphis Police Department anything that they had...

Dale Griffis (1) testimony, E/B Trial

feeds@yuku.com (Girlene) — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:44:17 GMT

PRICE: was in Capitol Magazine, Denver, Colorado, July 15, 1984, in which youre attributed to, made that quote?

FOGLEMAN (?): Your Honor, I think the proper way, whether he made the quote, not whether he read an article in which its attributed to it.

PRICE: Well he said he couldnt remember the quote, Judge, and I just wanted to quote the source.

THE COURT: He said he didnt know what you were quoting from.

PRICE: Alright, you mean as far as the book I have...

Hearing (Luminol)

feeds@yuku.com (AL) — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:13:05 GMT

NOTE: The audio picks up abruptly, so we have to rely on the abstract for the initial portion of this hearing outside of the presence of the jury.

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DAVIS: There was previously a motion in limine filed by one of the defense attorneys to keep out any reference to Luminol. (TR 2235) At this point and through numerous witnesses the question has been asked by defense counsel of the officers that they didn't find any evidence of blood at the scene. Based on the decision in...

Damien Echols testimony, E/B Trial

feeds@yuku.com (anotherwm3addict) — Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:55:58 GMT

Q: Please state your name for the court.

A: Damien Wayne Echols.

Q: Damien, where were you born?

A: West Memphis, Arkansas.

Q: Did you live in West Memphis for a certain period of time?

A: I've moved all around the United States, but I've generally moved back to West Memphis after each time.

Q: Do you recall approximately when the first move that you made was?

A: I was too young to remember.

Q: How about - Was there a certain period of...