Presumed Guilty

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Rusty informs Judge Carrington that he still doesn’t have the prosecution’s notes. Judge Carrington allows George Lowndes to begin his testimony, hoping the notes will arrive in the meantime. George was hiking at Harold’s Woods for his wife Gina’s birthday when he saw a blonde woman and a dark-skinned man arguing in the parking lot. The woman yelled at the man, who was holding something out of her reach. The man shoved the woman down and walked away. George saw the man again two hours later, speeding out of the parking lot in a Subaru.

Rusty begins his cross-examination before the notes arrive. He establishes that the couple was 120 feet away when George first saw them. Rusty points out inconsistencies in George’s statements across his two interviews. George initially stated there was no violence in the argument, and he only added that the man pushed the woman down after hearing about a Black murder suspect. George increased his certainty during pretrial interviews with Jackdorp. George also didn’t mention seeing the man speeding away in his first interview. From George’s position in the parking lot, he would’ve been looking at the driver through the passenger side’s tinted window for a split second.