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

1 information that Mr. Davidian published on his web site
2 in support of Byron Looper prior to his conviction or
3 after if they were untrue with respect to your office's
4 prosecution of Mr. Looper?
5 MR. HARRIS: And to that, if he's going to
6 summarize these articles, I'm going to object on the
7 grounds of best evidence and ask that we actually know
8 which particular articles and we see these articles and
9 that these articles are the best evidence as to what they
10 said.
11 Q. Go ahead, sir.
12 A. His article suggested that Mr. Looper
13 was not being afforded his Constitutional rights. That
14 it was a politically motivated prosecution. That it was
15 some sort of vendetta. Suggestions that the good ol' boy
16 network of Putnam had succeeded in prosecuting an
17 innocent person.
18 During the trial, there was some very derogatory
19 things on the web page about witnesses that testified at
20 the trial. One particular individual, a farm hand at the
21 Burks farm named Wesley Rex, he's mildly mentally
22 retarded. And he was referred to on that web page as a
23 moron and an idiot and just some things that were
24 unnecessarily depreciatory, derogatory about somebody
25 that didn't even want to be involved in the case.
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