Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
23 Q. And did you know -- did you personally know that man to
24 work for the police?
25 A. Yes. Then I said to my wife, I said, "We have to leave
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1 the country. Otherwise, we are going to get killed, and it's
2 the police."
3 Q. Did anyone from the police ever arrive to investigate the
4 attempt?
5 A. No, my attempt was never investigated by any judge or any
6 police.
7 Q. So what happened to the employee, whatever happened to
8 her?
9 A. This happened on the 27th, which was a Thursday. So on
10 the 28th, the Friday, I went to work at the court. And in the
11 afternoon, I went to visit her at the hospital. And they had
12 not admitted her into the hospital. She was just on --
13 somewhere on the floor in the hallway, just as we had left
14 her.
15 And one of the physicians or an intern or, I don't
16 know, but he was one of the doctors there, said that they were
17 going to just do something to her, treat her in some way, but
18 because she was a fat woman, that they weren't going to try to
19 extract the bullets. They were just going to leave them in
20 there. And they were going to release her the following day.
21 I had already had a ticket purchased for Saturday to go to
22 Venezuela, to Caracas, Venezuela to a criminology conference.
23 But I couldn't go to the airport because the police
24 had all the airports and other exits to the city secured, and
25 I was afraid to go to the airport because I figured at
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