Lisa Hepfner
Jury coming in at #LauraBabcock murder trial. Marlena Meneses is already in the witness box. #Millard is ready to cross.
Dellen #Millard starts with good morning. Meneses keeps looking down. Seems really nervous. #LauraBabcock
She started spending time at Millard's house mid 2012, she agrees. "You liked me at first... but not as time went on." Correct, she says. He would tease her with trivia questions. "It made you feel dumb. It wasn't nice. It hurt your feelings," She agrees.
"It wasn't just that hurt I was causing, it brought back all those feelings from high school." She agrees she was bullied at high school.
"We used to smoke a lot of weed. All the time, wherever we were going," Meneses agrees. He asks about the headrush on the first inhale, when you "forget where you are." She says not really. It depends how used to it you are.
I smacked your butt once right? Meneses says it was more than once. "Sorry, I forgot the more than once," he says. "Mark was sitting inside the car, I was playing with Pedo... you were behind me and all the sudden I felt a slap on the
." She gave him a dirty look, she agrees.
"Sorry, Marlena." "Thank you." She is answering curtly. #LauraBabcock
Millard puts message on screen, from Marlena to #Millard. "Dell it's Marlena, I think something happen when mark went to paint."Sept 30, 2012. #Smich had been out late vandalizing and she was worried, she remembers. #LauraBabcock
Marlena says #Millard had a car and could have met up with him at any time, so it made sense that she texted. #Smich didn't come home that night at all, she says. "If Mark was in trouble I was the one you'd call?" Yes, because you were his best friend, Meneses says.
Meneses would call #Millard because "I thought you were with him," Meneses says. And he was supposed to be like #Smich's brother
Meneses painted walls, and other things for Millard. Millard wants to know if she pays rent. She doesn't want to answer. Judge says we know she lives at home with her mother, whether she pays rent is irrelevant.
"I have a full time job, I pay for everything myself," Meneses bites out, after hedging on whether she still smokes. Millard says she didn't have a job when first with #Smich. #Millard would wake the couple up, take them for breakfast, smoke weed all day. Who paid for weed?
"I did work for you. That was my payment," Meneses said, as #Millard asks about all the times he paid for her food.
When you were staying at my house would I ever ask you to pay rent? You sat around my heated food, have BBQs, who would pay for the food at Costco? You. Cigarettes at Costco, who paid? You. Buying drinks at gas station, who paid? You. #LauraBabcock
"I paid for everything." Yes but we did work for you so you felt obligated to buy us things, Meneses says. She says #Millard asked for help, and then she asked more more work. He'd give her $20-$40 bucks on occasion for her phone as well as buy food.
Meneses helped paint a small apartment building #Millard had, and they didn't pay rent but in exchange they were working. She agrees. "While you guys were staying there, you smoked lots? Drank lots? Meneses says she doesn't drink much.
Meneses would help work on the #Millard Cadillac. #Smich wanted that car but to put it in Meneses or his mother's name because "he had issues with his licence," #Millard says. Meneses says that sounds familiar.
Meneses had taken small engine repair and was able to fix something that had frustrated #Millard. "Felt good to do a job that I wasn't able to do?" "It felt amazing," Meneses says with passion. Court laughs with her.
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