| Q: | What is your date of birth?
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| A: | July 15.
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| Q: | What year?
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| A: | Every year.
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| Q: | What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
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| A: | Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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| Q: | This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
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| A: | Yes.
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| Q: | And in what ways does it affect your memory?
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| A: | I forget.
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| Q: | You forget. Can you give us an example of something that
you've forgotten?
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| Q: | How old is your son, the one living with you.
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| A: | Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
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| Q: | How long has he lived with you?
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| A: | Forty-five years.
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| Q: | What was the first thing your husband said to you when
he woke that morning?
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| A: | He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
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| Q: | And why did that upset you?
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| A: | My name is Susan.
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| Q: | And where was the location of the accident?
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| A: | Approximately milepost 499.
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| Q: | And where is milepost 499?
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| A: | Probably between milepost 498 and 500.
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| Q: | Sir, what is your IQ?
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| A: | Well, I can see pretty well, I think.
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| Q: | Did you blow your horn or anything?
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| A: | After the accident?
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| Q: | Before the accident.
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| A: | Sure, I played for ten years. I even went to school for it.
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| Q: | Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in
voodoo or the occult?
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| A: | We both do.
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| Q: | Voodoo?
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| A: | We do.
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| Q: | You do?
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| A: | Yes, voodoo.
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| Q: | Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red
and blue lights flashing?
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| A: | Yes.
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| Q: | Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?
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| A: | Yes, sir.
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| Q: | What did she say?
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| A: | What disco am I at?
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| Q: | Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his
sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
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| Q: | The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he?
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| Q: | Were you present when your picture was taken?
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| Q: | Was it you or your younger brother who was killed in the war?
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| Q: | Did he kill you?
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| Q: | How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
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| Q: | You were there until the time you left, is that true?
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| Q: | How many times have you committed suicide?
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| Q: | So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
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| A: | Yes.
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| Q: | And what were you doing at that time?
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| Q: | She had three children, right?
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| A: | Yes.
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| Q: | How many were boys?
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| A: | None.
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| Q: | Were there any girls?
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| Q: | You say the stairs went down to the basement?
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| A: | Yes.
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| Q: | And these stairs, did they go up also?
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| Q: | Mr. Slatery, you went on a rather elaborate honeymoon,
didn't you?
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| A: | I went to Europe, Sir.
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| Q: | And you took your new wife?
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| Q: | How was your first marriage terminated?
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| A: | By death.
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| Q: | And by whose death was it terminated?
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| Q: | Can you describe the individual?
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| A: | He was about medium height and had a beard.
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| Q: | Was this a male, or a female?
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| Q: | Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a
deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
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| A: | No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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| Q: | Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead
people?
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| A: | All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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| Q: | All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you
go to?
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| A: | Oral.
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| Q: | Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
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| A: | The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
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| Q: | And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
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| A: | No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
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| Q: | Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
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| Q: | Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check
for a pulse?
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| A: | No.
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| Q: | Did you check for blood pressure?
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| A: | No.
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| Q: | Did you check for breathing?
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| A: | No.
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| Q: | So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?
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| A: | No.
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| Q: | How can you be so sure, Doctor?
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| A: | Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
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| Q: | But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
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| A: | It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.
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