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The defense is saying that they don't stipulate to some things that they stipulated to during the last trial while the judge says there's case law to support the stipulation.
Palmer asks him to provide the case law.
Judge says there's no power that requires him to do that.
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ADA Jay Hale says there are 6 stipulations, and they are marked into evidence.
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The jury will hear about phone records, video systems, and Green Dot data. The discs being entered into evidence now are basically full of technical data as it applies to those issues in the case. The jury is free to go through those later as they deliberate if they so choose.
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ATF Agent Scott Meadows takes the stand now. He was in the core team that carried this investigation through after January 2015 along with MBI Investigator Tim Douglas and US Attorney's office analyst Paul Rowlett.
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ATF got involved because additional resources were needed with the amount of leads and witnesses and suspects. They also transported evidence to their lab.
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Meadows said before he went to the Panola Sheriff's Department, he contacted the lab in Atlanta to make sure they followed the procedures as the lab needed. Evidence was sent in paint cans so the vapors would stay inside.
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Champion asks about the core team I mentioned a second ago. Meadows said for the earliest briefing he came to, the hallways were full of people, the conference room was a command post, tips were coming in, walls had tips and leads and intelligence on them.
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Now they're describing the conference room. Where they're ultimately going with this is that at some point when the glamor wore off, Meadows, Rowlett and Douglas were the last investigators standing on the case.
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As leads came in, agents provided information they learned from interviews, analysts and interns input those things into databases.
Meadows said large investigation, but info was passed to everyone via briefing meetings. Leads were assigned to teams who went out to investigate.
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Champion asks about interview between Douglas /Barry Thompson and Quinton Tellis. In the initial interview, it came out that he said he gave her some money that afternoon, Meadows said.
Interview with FBI agent Dustin Blount, did he say he'd had sex with Jessica and where? Yes.
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Talking about gasoline, dirt bike, etc.
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Meadows said leads started to evaporate around October.
Talking about Rowlett now, explaining what analysts do.
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Meadows is a digital media specialist for the ATF.
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Leads out of Iowa, Yazoo, Chattanooga, other places. None panned out.
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Meadows says as investigators were "whittled down," team became him, Rowlett, Douglas, and DA's office.
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They went through footage at the M&M gas station, Meadows says, and by reviewing that you could see who was going in and out and who was outside in the parking lot. The video was a piece of the puzzle, he says.
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Champ: Did you guys notice headlights going in and out of Quinton's driveway around 7-7:30 at night after he became a suspect again in this case?
Meadows: Yes sir.
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At some point Rowlett got some records from the U.S. Marshal Service and noticed something that made him call Meadows and Douglas. They were Tellis' records of positions of the cellular telephones in that time frame on the evening of Dec. 6, 2014. They already had Jessica's.
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"Your phone is always talking to a tower," Meadows said. "It knows where you are and that position is being transferred back and forth."
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Meadows said when investigators when through the video at the store, they never saw Quinton give Jessica any money, which has been a big subject of discussion.
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Investigators looked at what they had and knew they needed to look at him again, Meadows says. They went to Baton Rouge, advised him of his rights, and began interview on Nov. 2, 2015.
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Meadows identifies miranda warnings signed by Tellis on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, 2015.
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On Nov. 2, Rowlett came in midway through the interview, and he and Douglas conducted the interview on Nov. 3.
Tellis was reinterviewed in January 2016. Meadows identifies Tellis' signature on his Miranda rights from the January interview as well.
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Those interviews were video recorded and placed on a thumb drive.
Prosecution is setting up the showing of the interviews in court shortly.
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Champ: When trip was made to Monroe in November, were you aware of December interviews?
Meadows: Yes.
Champ: Was phone data consistent with what Tellis told the other agents in December?
Meadows: Absolutely inconsistent.
Champ: Feel the need to reinterview him?
Meadows: Yes.
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Meadows: We had old interview, data, videos from the store to aid with talking to him.
Champ: Paul had thousands of phone numbers amassed to provide info?
Meadows: Absolutely.
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Meadows said they started with talking to Tellis to put him at ease. Started talking about the day Jessica was burned.
Champion introducing the first segment of interviews with Tellis.
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Showing the interviews with Douglas and Meadows and Tellis.
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Tellis said he and Jessica traded numbers and started "texting and talking." They would talk on the phone too, he said.
Tellis tells Douglas and Meadows he had a girlfriend named Jamie Shaw. We will later find out he had another girlfriend in Louisiana, Chakita Jackson.
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Meadows: What about your wife now? So what was the status with her then?
Tellis: We were kicking it and she came to see me and stuff, but she was down in Monroe.