9:19
DIRECT EXAMINATION OF GA BY JB
Regarding your statement of your law enforcement experience, do you recall saying you chased bad guys into the woods?
OBJECTION BY JA - reading from something not in evidence - SUSTAINED
He did not recall the statement being discussed. He was shown the statement and asked to see the question prior to that. He now recalls making that statement.
How did you know your granddaughter would be found in the woods 6 months later?
OBJECTION BY JA - OVERRULED
GA: You are asking about my law enforcement experience and that is being taken out of context.
JB: Your statement was about smelling human decomp in the woods?
OBJECTION BY JA - not impeachment - Approach and bring the statement.
SIDEBAR #2 (9:23-9:29
Did you tell the police you smelled human decomp in the woods before? Yes, I had experience in Ohio. He also told them he smelled decomp in a house and in a car before.
Regarding the woods, the wooded area off of Suburban Drive while Caylee was missing, he walked the perimiter because JA (John Allen) brought a stuffed animal and said he retrieved it at the end of the street and that was when GA went for a walk.
Were you not spotted in another wooded area?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
Were you not in another wooded area?
OBJECTION -
In October of 2008 - wooded area?
OBJECTION - vague - OVERRULED
He was looking for a site for their Kid Finder tent and he was at a wooded area off of Hoffner and Lee Vista.
On 7/15/08 - when LE first came - you pulled YM aside and told him the car smelled? GA - That was done on the 16th. He talked to him about so many things at that time.
You were hysterical and upset the night the police were called? Yes I was.
After YM brought ICA back, he did not pull him aside. Did you go to his car and tell him that something that had happened to Caylee and ICA was lying?
He said that because ICA was the last one to see her.
On 7/24 he told LE that he had smelled the car and had smelled decomp.
He may have said that ICA lives on the edge.
OBJECTION -
On 7/24 - ICA takes the lies as far as she can take them?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
On 7/24 do you recall saying that ICA lives on the edge and takes the lies as far as she can take them?
OBJECTION - rule of completeness - YOU CAN DO IT ON CROSS - May we approach?
When asked the reason your daughter doesn't want to tell us ..... My daughter ives on the edge, all the lies and contradictions, my daugther takes things as far as she can take them? He said if it is written, he said it.
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
Do you recall saying nothing but negative things about your daughter? Apparently - I was trying to give LE all the info we had.
He went to see her in jail after that. He did not say those things to her because he was trying to keep her upbeat and to keep her as happy and as comfortable as possible. You were throwing her under the bus and...
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
He was cooperating with LE on one day to assist in finding Caylee and the next day he was trying to keep his daughter upbeat.
So you were under cover of sorts?
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
He was aware she wanted to be bonded out.
She couldn't get bonded out because you wouldn't put the house up?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
Grand jury testimony?
OBJECTION - APPROACH - SUSTAINED
SIDEBAR #3(9:41-9:44)
He told LE he was 100% certain he smelled human decomp in the trunk of his daughter's car.
8/5/09 depo - Do you recall being asked...
OBJECTION - page and Line?
Page 20
Depo answer - Not human decomp.
OBJECTION - rule of completeness - GO AHEAD
JB read GA's depo answer.
OBJECTION - rule of completeness - READ ENTIRE CONTEXT
JA - counsel needs to read through page 22.
JB - I would request that I be able to conduct my examination.
HHJBP - Rule 1.8.1 requires you read it.
JB - continues reading depo answer related to conversation with tow yard guy about the smell of decomp.
JA makes JB keep reading from depo regarding the garbage bag in the trunk.
Do you recall testifying in your depo that you did not believe that the smell in the car was human decomp? He feels his answer speaks for itself. He could smell the smell from 3 feet away. When he opened the car, it smelled like human decomposition. It was not the garbage.
On 7/24 it was human decomp and on 8/9 - it was the trash? He stated he did not say it was the trash. There WAS trash in the trunk with maggots. He has tried to be completely honest about what he saw and observed. His daughter and granddaughter were not in the trunk of the car.
There is a difference between trash and garbage.
He said decomposition. JB is trying to take the joy of his life away from him! The smell on 7/15 smelled like human decomp and his knowledge of law enforcement gives him that opportunity to know what it is.
That is why you called 911 then? I didn't call 911. That's why you drove the car home?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
And then you went to work?
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
And then you went to work? After he knew his daugther and granddaugher were not in the trunk, he took the car home. He was concerned. He did go to work.
He is not ashamed of what he did that day.
OBJECTION BY JB - nonresponsive - OVERRULED
You were on a media blitz?
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
On 8/09 did you advocate the innocence of your daughter? He did not want to believe his daughter could do this.
OBJECTION - nonresponsive - next question
You attempted to commit suicide? Yes sir I did.
You even left a note? Yes sir I did.
You expressed guilt?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
You expressed guilt?
OBJECTION - Question withdrawn - SUSTAINED
He was hospitalized. He is not sure what he did shortly thereafter. Media blitzes to advocate daughter's innocence? He can't recall what he said.
Do you recall being on 48 Hours and being paid $20,000 for that appearance? GA saying he has been nice to JB and tried to answer all questions and for what he and his wife might have retained from a news organization to bring notice to missing children - they did it for self-preservation - not only for Caylee..
OBJECTION BY JB - non-responsive - OVERRULED
What was the focus of the interview?
OBJECTION - relevance - SUSTAINED
Appearances on the Early Show? Possibly.
All media interviews stopped when the allegations of abuse started? I believe that was through you. Do you recall finding out another way?
OBJECTION - relevance may we approach - you may
SIDEBAR# 4 (10:01-10:05
15 minute recess to 10:20