YES, YOUR HONOR. WE WOULD LIKE TO GET AN OFFER OF PROOF. YESTERDAY WITH MR. DARDEN WE GOT INTO A SITUATION WHERE WE HAD SIX OBJECTIONS SUSTAINED IN A ROW, YET THE INFERENCE OF THE QUESTIONS WE FELT HAD AN IMPACT ON THE CASE, AND I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE SAME SITUATION HERE, SO WE WOULD LIKE AN OFFER OF PROOF IN ADVANCE AS TO WHERE THEY ARE GOING WITH THIS WITNESS ON THESE HEARSAY QUESTIONS.
THEY ARE NOT HEARSAY QUESTIONS. THESE ARE ADMISSIONS BY A DEFENDANT AND THIS WAS A SUBJECT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. SHAPIRO. HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE GOING. HE HAS GOT THE TRANSCRIPT. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS. THIS WITNESS IS GOING TO TESTIFY, AND MR. SHAPIRO KNOWS IT, OR SHOULD KNOW IT VERY WELL IF HE HAS READ HIS MATERIAL, THAT THE DEFENDANT FELT THAT NICOLE WAS TRYING TO KEEP SYDNEY FROM BEING WITH HIM, BUT THAT HE MANAGED TO SEE SYDNEY FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND THIS IS -- AND THEN MAKES A COMMENT ABOUT NICOLE AND THE TIGHT DRESSES SHE WORE. THIS WAS TESTIFIED TO AT THE PRELIM, AT THE GRAND JURY AND AT SHAPIRO'S INTERVIEWS, PLURAL, SO COUNSEL IS NOT IN THE DARK ABOUT ANYTHING WITH THIS WITNESS.
MISS CLARK, ALL HE ASKED FOR WAS AN OFFER OF PROOF, SO WE DON'T NEED TO DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT HE HAS ALREADY GOT IT OR IT IS HIS INTERVIEWS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
THIS IS A WITNESS, YOUR HONOR -- I THINK THE COURT DOESN'T KNOW -- THIS IS A WITNESS THAT HAS SPOKEN MORE TO MR. SHAPIRO THAN HE HAS TO US.
YOUR HONOR, THE OBJECTION WOULD BE THAT IT IS HEARSAY AND THAT THERE IS NO VALID EXCEPTION FOR THIS TO COME IN.
YESTERDAY WITH MR. DARDEN WE GOT INTO A SITUATION WHERE WE HAD SIX OBJECTIONS SUSTAINED IN A ROW, YET THE INFERENCE OF THE QUESTIONS WE FELT HAD AN IMPACT ON THE CASE
THE DEFENDANT FELT THAT NICOLE WAS TRYING TO KEEP SYDNEY FROM BEING WITH HIM, BUT THAT HE MANAGED TO SEE SYDNEY FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND THIS IS -- AND THEN MAKES A COMMENT ABOUT NICOLE AND THE TIGHT DRESSES SHE WORE.
THIS IS A WITNESS THAT HAS SPOKEN MORE TO MR. SHAPIRO THAN HE HAS TO US.