Opinion ID: 74654
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Heading: GBI Interview

Text: 6 During 1993, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigated the suspected theft of money from the evidence room. The GBI interviewed Stanley with Chief Slade, Captain Bagley, and Lieutenant Black present. The record contains no transcript or GBI report regarding exactly what Stanley said to the GBI. In his 1998 deposition, Stanley testified that he gave the GBI his theory that he suspected Chadwick of the theft because Chadwick was one of two people with keys to the evidence room and the theft appeared to be an inside job: 7 All it was was theory [sic], that's what we were talking about discussing suspects and theory. . . . There was only two people that had keys [to the evidence room]. [Chadwick] was one of them and Cooper was the other one, he and Cooper that knew the combination. The evidence from the case itself suggested it was inside, it was people with knowledge of where the monies were kept, how they were kept, what was actually there. So at the time there was a lot of political talk going on that Slade wasn't going to be reappointed, and I dealt with some people in the past in the political end of it who talked about the way the City government would appoint their chiefs and some of the things that were done in the past. So these facts and circumstances led me to that conclusion. And this was only a theory, that was something for them to check. 8 Stanley knew Chadwick wanted to become Chief and speculated that Chadwick may have staged the theft to damage Chief Slade's credibility. Stanley testified that he informed only those people in the GBI interview. 9 The GBI interviewed Chadwick, who took a polygraph test. Chadwick testified that he learned of Stanley's comments to the GBI. Chadwick confronted Stanley about his comments, told Stanley that he did not appreciate them, and asked him if he had any evidence to support his suspicions. Ultimately, the GBI never identified anyone as responsible for the theft.