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CaSase 2:20-00880-RAEJN Document 6988 Filed 10/09/21 Page 916 of 623 9 L9L5ber1
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MR. DeMARCO: OK.
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THE COURT: Was it an issue you wanted to speak to the government about first?
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MR. DeMARCO: I did consult with the government. I was unpersuasive. I was hoping to be more successful with your Honor.
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THE COURT: OK. And the first witness is?
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MR. DeMARCO: Mr. Rasheen Vega.
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THE COURT: Go ahead. And if you could speak into the mic, please?
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MR. DeMARCO: It seems to me, your Honor, from my reading of the 3500 material, that we can expect Mr. Vega to testify to something like this: That he was the nephew of Mr. Jones, that he was 11 years old at the time that Mr. Jones was shot in June of 2000, that he witnessed a portion of that shooting or the aftermath of that shooting which I am OK with.
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The problem that I have with his prospective testimony is this:
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It also appears from reading the 3500 that the government will seek to elicit from Mr. Vega testimony about the horrific, horrific bedsores or compression sores that Mr. Jones was suffering from at the time of his death. I believe there is at least notes that Mr. Vega observed the sores to be oozing,
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observed Mr. Jones to be in terrible, terrible pain and suffering at or near the time of his death, and my concern is that, A, in light of the fact that two doctors are being called
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
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