Opinion ID: 2107935
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: admission of ms. gibson's testimony

Text: Before the trial started, the prosecutor informed the judge that the government had provided Ms. Deloatch's grand jury transcript to defense counsel and to Ms. Deloatch. According to the prosecutor, while Ms. Deloatch was reviewing the transcript in the hallway, another witness was sitting next to her and did look at the pages she was looking at. In her disclosure to the court, the prosecutor identified Ms. Maria Gibson as the government witness who read along with Ms. Deloatch. Defense counsel did not object to Ms. Gibson's testimony or cross examine her on that issue. On appeal, however, appellant contends for the first time that the trial court erred in admitting Ms. Gibson's testimony because she viewed Ms. Deloatch's grand jury transcript prior to testifying at trial. Specifically, appellant asserts that it is probable that Ms. Gibson's testimony was not based on her own observations but instead based on information she read in the transcript of Ms. Deloatch's grand jury testimony. Since defense counsel did not object or raise this issue in the trial court, this court reviews this argument for plain error. There is no evidence that Ms. Gibson's testimony reflected that she was using or relying on information gained from allegedly reading the transcript. We find no plain error.