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

1 circumstances of the death of Darlene Eldridqe?
2 A. No. It's like he made some mention of
3 the death of Darlene Eldridge, but the subject, the tone
4 or the thrust of his visit pretty quickly turned to
5 himself and his own pursuit of this traffic ticket thing.
6 Q. All right. Did he subpoena you in that
7 traffic ticket case?
8 A. At some point that traffic ticket case
9 made it to the Circuit Court. And he subpoenaed me to
10 come to a local motel to a discovery deposition out of
11 that case.
12 And in that subpoena, if my recollection is correct,
13 he asked that I bring all of the records, paperwork,
14 documents that my office had concerning the investigation
15 of the death of Darlene Eldridge to this deposition
16 concerning his traffic ticket.
17 Q. Now, would a subpoena of that breadth
18 about an ongoing investigation, would that cause you as
19 district attorney any concern?
20 A. It certainly would cause any district
21 attorney concern. And what I did in that case is I
22 called the state attorney general's office, our legal
23 counsel for state agencies, and I asked them what I
24 should do in that situation.
25 They were immediately concerned since it did involve
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