Opinion ID: 1862032
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 11

Heading: Orr's Testimony

Text: ¶ 23. CDS employee Willie Orr had installed or supervised the installation of every Cool Millions game in Mississippi. Orr was in charge of assembling, testing, and maintaining all of the games as well as the monitoring systems. He was accepted as an expert in the operations of Cool Millions games. ¶ 24. Orr testified as to the differences in reactions of the slot machine in the event of a jackpot or a hopper tilt-reactions of machine # 5638 (evidenced by surveillance tapes and Freeman's testimony) are in boldas follows: Jackpot Characteristics Hopper Tilt Characteristics 1. both candles on top of the machine illuminate Top candle alone flashes but do not flash 2. Casino and CDS computer reports both Neither indicates jackpot indicate jackpot. 3. Casino SDS report prints out Jackpot SDS report prints out Hopper Can't Pay 4. CDS Transaction Log prints out Group CDS Transaction Log prints out Hopper 0 Jackpot Tilt 5. CDS headquarters computer screens Screens show the machine number and turn bright red Hopper Tilt. 6. Every fifteen minutes the meters at the Meters continue to increment in flashing top of every Cool Millions machine in multiple colors Mississippi turn a solid red and exhibit the words Machine 5638 and the amount won. 7. The Progressive amount resets to One Amount continues to increment Million and then begins to increment. 8. The machine bell rings. The machine bell rings. 9. LED display on the face of the slot machine LED display reads the number of coins reads Jackpot. played. 10. CDS personnel are notified in order to Casino personnel are summoned to unjam verify. the hopper. 11. The Commission is notified by the casino The Commission is not notified. to assist in jackpot verification. ¶ 25. Orr reviewed the surveillance tapes and determined that Freeman was only playing one coin into machine # 5638 when it went into a hopper tilt evidenced by the top tower light flashing. Further, the progressive numbers on the meters were changing colors as they do when normally incrementing. Orr testified that a hopper tilt is often caused by the coins being jammed too tight, and to remedy the tilt, someone must stir the coins until unjammed, as Garner said she did here. Orr also stated that, if Garner had changed the reel as Freeman alleges, it would not have changed a valid jackpot because the computer signals would have already been triggered. ¶ 26. Finally, Orr presented the hearing examiner with a video demonstration of how the Cool Millions game performs when it goes into a hopper tilt. The demonstration showed the top candle of the machine flashing and a loud noise being emitted. Orr also provided the hearing examiner with a portion of the machine's manual showing the tower lamp indicators for the machine that Freeman was playing. The tower lamp indicator for a hopper tilt is the top light flashing; whereas, the jackpot indicator is both lamps illuminated but not flashing. According to Orr's review of the surveillance tapes, only the top candle of Freeman's machine (# 5638) was illuminated, and it was flashing. Orr finished his testimony by stating that it was clear to him that machine # 5638 went into a hopper tilt when Freeman was playing it.