Opinion ID: 2609926
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: proceedings held with reference to z.p. eldridge:

Text: THE COURT: Now, what was bothering you, Mr. Eldridge, in the Courtroom? MR. ELDRIDGE: Well  THE COURT: I might say this, and then you can have your say. The only thing I am interested in is that Mr. Quigg gets a fair trial. MR. ELDRIDGE: That is right. THE COURT: That is all I am interested in. MR. ELDRIDGE: Right. THE COURT: Now, what you might do in the courtroom could hurt him, do you understand that? MR. ELDRIDGE: Yes. THE COURT: What is bothering you about testifying? MR. ELDRIDGE: Well, a few days ago they took my brother first and then they take him to the courthouse and they played a tape on him, and they played it all the way through on my brother, and then when I went in there, that guy right there  MR. McNAMER: Now you are pointing at me, the prosecutor of this case? MR. ELDRIDGE: Right, He was in the room, him and I  I think it was Shaffer, the guy that is, walked out of the courtroom named Capt. Shaffer, I think it was him  at the time I walked into the office, the phone rang and they sent him to answer the phone. MR. McNAMER: That is they  MR. ELDRIDGE: To answer the phone. Shaffer played a tape on me, and the tape he played were really, was scared, threaten my life, what Gary was going to do to me; Gary was going to  if he was found guilty, he was going to kill me and my brother, and then he was going to take us along with him, and then really, they tried to get me to tell a lie. THE COURT: All right, now let me interrupt one minute. You testified in the first trial, did you not? MR. ELDRIDGE: Yes. THE COURT: And, Mr. McNamer, may I ask you this, your purpose of using this man as a witness is to prove the fact that he got the gun from his brother, is that right? MR. McNAMER: That is right. THE COURT: And it is limited to that, isn't it? MR. ELDRIDGE: But, Your Honor,  THE COURT: Just one minute and you will have your say. MR. McNAMER: Yes, the questions would be the same as at the previous trial, I did want to ask you whether  MR. ELDRIDGE: What you mean by previous? THE COURT: When you testified before in Court. MR. ELDRIDGE: Well, see  look  them questions what you really asked me  some of them they weren't supposed to ask me. They were where did I get the gun from and everything, that is what they really were supposed to ask me, and then they asked me a whole lot more questions.