Opinion ID: 492109
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: All right.

Text: 36 Q When you use this word, are you saying that you never had any meetings with Mr. Bernstein where you discussed mitigating factors? 37 A No, I would not say that. 38 Q Do you use it then in the medical sense of an official evaluation where you would do an interview and whatever else? 39 A Right. So it would be a formal professional exercise aimed at a specific focus. In this case, it would have been mitigating factors. 40 Q If Mr. Stephen Bernstein says that there was a meeting or meetings and/or discussions with you dealing with mitigating factors in the Booker case-- 41 A Yes. 42 Q --are you saying in this Paragraph No. 5 that those did not occur? 43 A Those meetings did not occur? No, I am not saying that. 44 Q Or that those discussions did not occur? 45 A No, I am not saying that. 46    47 Q Dr. Carrera, I show you what is a copy of the testimony of Mr. Stephen Bernstein at the November 1983 hearing, which I am going to ask the court to take judicial notice of as being in the file, and ask you, sir, if you had occasion at my direction to read that entire testimony of Stephen Bernstein on November 14, 1983 in this Court? 48 A Yes, sir. 49 Q Now, sir, my question to you is, do you deny, disagree or refute anything said by Mr. Bernstein in that testimony dealing with meetings with you or the subjects of conversations dealing with mitigating circumstances? 50    51 Q Have you read the transcript, Dr. Carrera? 52 A Yes, I have. 53 Q Did you read it in mind with the point of trying to find out whether or not you would disagree or find fault or error with anything that was said? 54 A Yes, sir. 55 Q Did you take notes for that purpose to make sure that you would pick apart anything that you could find that you would definitely would say was wrong? 56 A Yes, sir. 57 Q Did you find anything in that transcript, sir, that you deny, disagree or refute Mr. Bernstein said in that testimony dealing with his meetings with you were the subject of his conversations dealing with mitigating circumstances? 58 A No, I don't have any disagreement about what was in the transcript. 59 Q If Mr. Bernstein said that there was a meeting at your office and that there were other such meetings in the hallways and/or his office where you discussed mitigating factors, can you swear to the Court, sir, today, that that is not a fact? 60 A I cannot swear to that. 61 Q Did you mean to say that in your affidavit? 62 A Did I mean to say? 63 Q That Mr. Bernstein was lying? 64 A No, I didn't mean to say that.