Opinion ID: 1199597
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Heading Rank: 10

Heading: Rosalee Patterson

Text: In 1982, Patterson was both a regular dispatcher for the Lindsay Police Department and the department's records supervisor. Then, as in 1997, she was acquainted with Gholston but not a close friend. Patterson did not recall receiving a call from Gholston reporting that Gholston was a juror in a capital case and was frightened because a relative of the defendant was lurking outside her home. Patterson would remember such an incident. Had such a call been received by any dispatcher, an officer would have been sent to Gholston's residence, a police report generated, and extra patrols ordered. A police report from 1982 would have been purged from the records by the time of Patterson's testimony in 1997. However, even if Patterson was not the dispatcher who took Gholston's call in 1982, Patterson would have seen and remembered the police report in her 1982 capacity as records supervisor. She did not recall such a report.