Opinion ID: 2090217
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Offer of Gidney Testimony

Text: [¶ 9] Cochran offered the videotaped testimony of Mary Gidney, but the court sustained the State's objection to the testimony and ruled it inadmissible. Gidney testified that in late 1976 when she was the bartender at a Waterville restaurant, Doyon and Lessard came into the restaurant. Gidney knew both of them and had gone to school with Doyon. Gidney said Doyon had been drinking and walked kind of macho up to the bar where he used the telephone located on the bar. There was no one else at the bar. Gidney overheard Doyon say into the telephone that they had taken care of the Volkswagen and the woman they killed was in the trunk of a car. Gidney did not know to whom Doyon was talking. She also heard him say something about the location of a gun, but she could not remember what that was. She also testified that more than once Doyon said they got away with murder, and she acknowledged that the reason she remembered that statement was because they would gather in the corner and say well, they got away with murder. Doyon's telephone conversation upset Gidney, and she asked him to leave. She first told the police about this conversation in 1987.