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taken to the beach a week earlier.)
"Do you remember going to the beach with your mother and
Danny and Cheryl?"
"Yeah."
"Do you remember the drive to the beach being a long ways
or a short ways?"
"It was long."
"Do you remember Danny sleeping--Well--forget that question.
I'll ask you again. Do you remember where Cheryl was
sitting on the ride to the beach?"
(No response.)
"Do you remember if she would have been sitting in the front
seat or the back seat?"
"She was in the back seat."
"Do you remember about coming home if he [Danny] was in
the back seat?"
(No response.)
"We can go back to that in a minute. Do you remember
Danny sleeping on that trip to and back from the beach while in
the car driving?"
(No response.)
(Jagger's questions jump around. He starts one, drops the
core of it, and asks something else. Christie begins simply not to
answer.)
"We can come back to that--or do you want to think about it
more--or do you want me to ask you another question?"
"All right."
"I'm sorry?"
"It's all right. You can ask me another question."
"Do you remember helping your mother at all--taking things
from the trunk of the car or putting anything into the trunk of the
car?"
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"No--only our clothes." ,.
(The defense attorney shows pictures to Christie--the composites
of the bushy-haired man. She has never seen him.)
"Have you talked with Mr. Hugi about testifying here? Can
you tell me about how many times you've talked to Mr. Hugi
about what you would say here in court or about testifying here?"
(No response.)
"Have you been talking to him each week, or do you
remember?"
(No response.)
"Do you want me to ask another question?"
(Brenda returns to the courtroom, her face puffed from crying.)
"It's all right," Christie tells Jim Jagger. "If you want to."
(Diane smiles faintly.)
"... Have you practiced being a witness in a courtroom
before?"
"Yeah."
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"... Did you practice being a judge? Do you remember that
at all? Did you do that too?"
(Witness nods head.)
(Christie laughs, her eyes turn down shyly--then she glances
up at Judge Foote. He smiles at her. The gallery is getting restless
and antsy. A woman in the second row mutters under her breath,
"Come on! That's enough.")
"OK. Did you practice sitting where the attorneys sit?"
"No."
"Have you had some--when you were driving to your mom's
friend that night, were you and Danny and Cheryl--what were
you doing on the drive out to her place?"
"Listening to the music."
"What music was playing?"
"ThetapeofDuranDuran."
(Diane is staring intensely at Christie. Her face contorts--as
if she is trying to convey something to her daughter.)
"Were you all laughing or talking?"
"Not talking or laughing."
"Just listening to the music?"
. "Maybe we were talking sometimes."
"Do you remember if on the way out there, you got lost at
all?"
"Nope." ^.,
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"Do you remember seeing in the hospital some things on the
television about your mother and you and Danny and Cheryl?"
"Yeah."
"What do you remember?"
(No response.)
"Do you remember if you saw any TV programs about it?"
(No response.)
"Do you feel like you know what the answer is to my question
but you just can't say it, or maybe you don't know if you saw TV
or not?"
(No response.)
"Are you feeling a little tired?"
"No."
"I wouldn't mind if we had even a break at this time. I'll be
asking a series of more questions, taking more time," Jagger
offers to Judge Foote. "This might be an appropriate place to
break. Fresh in the morning might be better."
This was what Hugi had feared. Christie had dreaded the witness
stand. He didn't want her to have to go through another night of
anxiety. Foote agrees. He orders only a ten-minute recess.
Jagger is going on too long with the child. He asks the same
questions several timesùobviously trying to show that Christie.
has confused the trip to the beach with the trip to Heather Plourd's.
He hints that Christie has been coached until she is brainwashed
by Susan Staffel, Paula Krogdahl, and Fred Hugi. But it isn't
working.
Christie knows what she knows.
It is 5:05 in the afternoon. Jaggers begins again.
VERBATIM:
"Do you remember some time ago you being told by anyoneù
erase thatùDo you know what a suspectùdo you know what the
word 'suspect' means?"
"No."
"That's the reason I want to stop for a second. Do you
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