Hollingworth ruled that Brock's lawyers couldn't ask Peck about the conversation he'd had with Zibel because it was hearsay, which is not admissable under the Rules of Evidence. But Krueger went ahead and asked Peck about the conversation. Peck immediately confirmed Zibel's story. Sen. Jim Squires is a perpetual problem for the House during the question periods. Yesterday, he asked defense witness William Saturley, a highly regarded lawyer from Manchester, about how the Senate should weigh the perjury charges against Brock.
Squires also invites witnesses to wonder at the very charges themselves.
Earlier in the trial, he asked a witness if he had ever seen a defendant in a criminal trial accused of perjury for claiming he was innocent. The witness said he never had. But it was Lancaster's lengthy indictment of the House impeachment investigation on Thursday that turned the House prosecutors' silent brooding into indignant protest. Sen. Debra Pignatelli started it. He portrayed the committee as disrespectful and said some members were set against Brock from the moment the inquiry began.