Opinion ID: 6216640
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Bartender Testimony.

Text: ¶16 On direct, the State questioned the Bartender, inter alia, about what happened before Lake and Zitnik left the bar and as to his knowledge of their prior relationship. He testified that he did not really know why, but that Lake and Zitnik did not like each other and that he had previously heard them speak “crassly” to each other and engage in “shit-talk.” He initially testified that he had previously heard Cravens and Zitnik refer to Lake as a child molester, but later clarified on redirect that it was actually Cravens who had referred to him as a child molester, not Zitnik. The State asked the Bartender whether Cravens and Lake had been “friendly or unfriendly” before he heard Cravens refer to Lake as a child molester. He responded that they had been “pretty friendly up until the story.” The State asked him to specify what “the story” was about. He replied that he recalled Cravens saying that it was “something about [Lake] having a dream about having sex with a 14-year-old.” The State then asked again whether it was Cravens who “told [him] about the dream” and his “child molester concern.” The Bartender affirmed his earlier testimony, said that he never heard Zitnik talk about it, and assumed he heard it from Cravens.