Opinion ID: 2066238
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Heading: Confession Videotape

Text: Brisbon's videotaped confession, given on May 24, the day he was arrested, was introduced during the government's case-in-chief. To avoid tainting Wonson's trial, however, the trial judge originally permitted the jury to see only a redacted version of the videotape, which excised all references to Wonson's involvement. The trial judge told the jury that the excised portions were legally irrelevant. In the redacted videotaped confession, Brisbon said that he bought the truck from George and someone else. He then drove both men home in Dana Route's Toyota. He said that his motive for the shooting was revenge for an unidentified friend who had been assaulted in a club. Brisbon recounted the drive-by shooting with himself as the driver and the friend as the passenger, and remembered such details as cleaning the weapons with WD-40 beforehand, as Ms. Route had testified. He also claimed that he turned the truck over to someone else to be burned. [4] Toward the end of the confession, the detective asked Brisbon, what would you say... If I told you that all the shell casings that were out there ... all came from the same gun? Brisbon answered, that's impossible.