MORE: Day 1 of Jordan Wallace's testimony
Much of the morning was spent shoring up the testimony that Jordan Wallace gave Monday. The defense attempted to damaged Wallace’s credibility by pointing out the times Wallace changed his statements to police, as well as that deleted text.
“I was afraid my boss would see them and he’d say, ‘you’re taking pictures of my stuff and you’re gone,’” Wallace testified. He also said he did not know what time he deleted the text he sent to his girlfriend.
Interrogation video was shown to the jury again. The room is small and gray, with a small gray square table in the right corner. There is an aluminum chair nestled up to the left side of the gray table and two dark-blue upholstered desk chairs with wheels on opposite sides of the room. Wallace was in the one to the left near the door. Detective Williams was in the blue chair on the right side of the room.
Wallace was wearing coral red pants, a blue and white plaid shirt and white sunglasses - the same outfit he was wearing in the Bank of America video and the video from Lowes’ in Chantilly at noon on Thursday, May 14, 2015.
At one point when Wallace was waiting for detectives to arrive, he was bent over with elbows on his knees and his hands on his head. He appeared shaken and anxious, his voice cracking as he spoke with Williams. At another point, Wallace was in the chair next to Williams as he was showing the detective his cellphone and giving him the passcode.
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In one clip, Williams, a broad man with white hair wearing a blue blazer and khaki pants, is heard saying to Wallace, “It causes me a lot of concern that you would omit this.”
Williams was talking about a message from Savvas Savopoulos that Wallace had overlooked on his phone. “I genuinely didn’t mean… sir, I’m not trying to hide anything, I’m not,” Wallace replies. “I was comfortable showing it (his phone) to you because I didn’t.”
Prosecutor Laura Bach read a transcript of another exchange with Williams, where Williams told Wallace he did not believe the story about getting the cash at the bank.
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“The *advertiser censored*ing bank is not going to give you $40,000 and let you walk out and say, ‘Hey, you’re a loyal customer - here… but that s**t in your *advertiser censored*ing bag and walk out,’” Williams said.
Bach noted for the jury that Wallace, after a four-and-a-half-hour interview, did correct his assertions about the car being unlocked, the money being placed by Wallace into a manila envelope and the date he first got a message from Savvas Savopoulos about the package delivery job.
“I’m sorry,” he is heard telling the detective. “It’s been a long day.”
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“Were you trying to get it wrong? Were you trying to lie to them?” asked Laura Bach.
“No,” Wallace said. He stated he was still worried about what had happened and didn’t know what was going on.
“I was scared, confused,” Wallace said. “It was a lot.”
Bach also questioned Wallace about his past marijuana use. Wallace asserted it was only in college, and that he never purchased marijuana from anyone named Wint.
Finally, Bach got to the direct question: “Did you conspire with Darrell Wint to rob or murder your boss’s family?”
“No,” Wallace answered.
“Did you conspire with Stefon Wint to rob or murder your boss’s family?” Bach questioned.
“No,” Wallace answered again.
“Did you have anything to do with these murders?” Bach continued.
“No,” Wallace stated.
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