Quindarius Zachary's second day on the stand. His attitude towards his police interviews is different than it was Friday - a whole lot of "I don't recall".
Ms. Love keeps implying that someone influenced Lil Dee over the weekend to be less cooperative.
The Judge has told her to "get to the pertinent part" of her questioning because she's been slowly going line by line on everything he's told police.
Love insists that she has to do it that way to get the truth out.
The defense has been spamming "403" objections (Waste of time) and most of them are getting sustained.
The Judge has repeatedly told Love to get on with it. I think she might finally be seeing what we see?
this clip pretty much exemplifies how today is going -
QZ, who has testified under oath that he is autistic, absentmindedly answering "I don't know" to every question about his 2016 interviews while fiddling around with something in his hands
QZ heavily incriminated Shannon Stillwell, aka SB, in his 2016 interviews which is what the State is going over right now.
He directly named Shannon as part of driveby shootings that QZ is now claiming, today, he lied to police about.
State asks QZ to show the jury how to shoot 2 "big guns" at the same time.
QZ says "easy" but refuses to show the jury.
(QZ is claiming he shot both of these guns himself during a driveby, but in 2016 he named a "Tay" as a shooter with him)
"Do you remember who dropped you off?"
QZ: "You did"
"I did?"
QZ: "Yea"
"Did you tell the Police i dropped you off?
QZ: "No, I didn't want them to know we were messing around"
?????
State is now asking about QZs police statements about a 2014 driveby shooting at a gambling house
QZ told cops that Thug was at that gambling house during the shooting, and that the window of Thugs car got shot out.
QZ told cops that Thug said he wouldn’t be cool with Shell Kel until he paid for the window (implying Shell Kel was behind the gambling house shooting)
This also lines up with what Woody told cops at one point.
“Will you remember anything I ask you today?”
“No”
Got QZ designated as a hostile witness, meaning Love can ask him leading questions.
They’re going into who shot up the gambling house, to explain what lead up to the states theory of a “gang war” between IF Gang and YSL
Now getting into QZs statements regarding the Nut murder.
QZ gave a lot of details - a lot of which was consistent with Woody and some of which contradicts Woody.
QZs information on the nut murder was all “third hand” - some of which came from Woody, some of which came from Garlington - neither of which were first hand witnesses.
This “double hearsay” is admissible through the “co-conspirator statement” hearsay exception
QZ told cops that Shannon told him “we caught that n*** Nut down bad”
QZ also named the 4 people charged with the murder as being in the car.
(today he says he lied back then)
Correction to my earlier statement about double hearsay - QZ told cops he got some information directly from firsthand witnesses.
QZ told cops that Shannon told him the details at Thug’s house right after the murder, and also told them later Yak told him the same details.
Today, of course, QZ is saying things like “Yak never told me nothing” and “I wasn’t around them that night, I lied”
QZ told cops Duwap, one of the charged murderers, is Yaks friend.
Now moving onto questions about the Lil Wayne bus shooting.
QZ talked to the police about that too…
QZ testifies he was adamant back then, as he is today, that “Mr. Williams didn’t have anything to do with what Roscoe did, even though y’all kept tryna make it seem like that”
“I don’t know about my rights but I’m pretty sure yall violating them”
QZ says he’s in pain and needs medication. Judge calls for a break.
Done for day as QZ’s request is being accommodated by the State.
Back tomorrow. Love said she’s almost done but has barely started asking about QZs other police interview, in 2017. Hopefully wasn’t a long one and double hopefully she’s not intending on playing the videos.
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State says they'll finish their direct examination of Lil Dee / QZ today.
Continuing the questioning of what QZ told detectives Dennis and Gaither about the Nut murder, years ago.
Today, he is denying ever meeting at Thug's house and saying he lied on Shannon and Yak. He says he wanted to blame Shannon specifically because they "never got along".
QZ told cops that Shannon told him the reason they shot Nut was because Nut put a green light on members of 30 deep / YSL to be harmed.
I don't know if the State actually is using this theory because they've given like 2 other different theories for motivations for the murder.
Continuing with one of the main investigators of the YSL case, DA Sprinkel.
QZ's time and conditions of release is still uncertain.
This morning, the Judge indicated she does NOT think it's appropriate for QZ to go back to jail after being released from the hospital.
However, she wants the State to propose an alternative arrangement to secure his appearance because the warrant affidavit indicated his family wanted to hide him.
Schardt makes it clear ahead of time, although he’s not a party in what’s happening with QZ right now,
if QZ gets half way through testifying and then can no longer continue or get cross examined, his client will be irreparably prejudiced and he will ask for mistrial.
This morning, QZ's lawyer was in court asking for his client to be released from the material witness warrant.
Ms. Love says the doctors indicated that QZ will be released no later than tomorrow, and that nothing about his condition was holding him back from testifying except for self-reported pain.
The Judge implies she thinks QZ may be exaggerating his condition to avoid testifying and will not release him if the doctors clear him to testify.
With Ms. Love taking a backseat today, the state has actually been able to get through 5 witnesses (all law enforcement) before lunch. Gotta be some type of record for them.
The law enforcement have all been testifying about crimes committed by people not on trial.
Detective Thorpe is on the stand, testifying about his investigation into the Nut murder and his own involvement with Lil Woody.
Ms Love continuing her new habit of asking for a bench conference for literally everything so that the cameras don't catch it.
The Judge shuts her down realizing there's no need lol..
"You're not telling me anything!" - the Judge after 2 minutes of rambling from Ms. Love trying to overcome an evidentiary objection, which is what Ms. Love asked for a bench conference for in the first place
Today’s witnesses are pretty much all law enforcement or related. We have moved on from the Donovan Thomas incident onto incidents later in 2015.
We will probably come back at some point.
The first witness is Ms. Latners, who has already been on the stand 4 or 5 times.
Through her, the 911 calls of a 2015 driveby shooting are shown to the jury. Mounk Tounk plead guilty to this. Damekion Garlington is not part of this trial but is a co-defendant.
Next witness is Denise Bell, listed as a victim, who was shot in this incident.
The state asked questions about her experience. No one from the defense had any cross for her.
Somehow, we’re spending all day discussing the circumstances surrounding Mounk Tounk’s plea negotiations. The witness on the stand is his lawyer.
“I do not have an acceptable explanation as to how we missed it.”
??? Ok
Doug Weinstein is up first for a brief cross, asking how the State came up with their acknowledgments (witness doesn’t know), asking if they got everything they wanted into the final plea statements (no)