THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE ... - The Putnam Pit

1 others, had implied that he got . . .
2 MR. HARRIS: (Interposing) I'm going to
3 object as hearsay to the extent it was conversations with
4 others, unless the foundation is laid as to these
5 conversations.
6 Q. And right now I'm asking what
7 Mr. Davidian told you.
8 A. Well, Mr. Davidian's whole tone was
9 that he had been stopped and harassed by the Cookeville
10 Police Department because he was in town doing a
11 journalistic investigation of a death case that they were
12 investigating.
13 That he was looking over their shoulder and that
14 this was some sort of a warning to him to leave it alone
15 is what he implied to me.
16 And I asked Mr. Davidian, you know, the first
17 question I had was, you know, were you actually speeding
18 or not? And he said he didn't know. That that wasn't
19 important. That wasn't the issue. The issue was,
20 whether he was speeding or not, he felt the motive behind
21 the traffic stop was on account of what he was here for.
22 Q. I see. Tell the jury was there an
23 investigation by one or more agencies into the death of
24 Darlene Eldridge?
25 A. There was an investigation. I think it
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