US vs LEONARD PELTIER TRIAL TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS Case Number CR77-3003

MARSHAL GERALD L. DOUGLAS, TOOK FINGERPRINTS OF ROBIDEAU

MR. CROOKS:  If it please the Court, the United States would next call Mr. Gerald Douglas.
 GERALD L. DOUGLAS
being first duly sworn, testified as follows:
 DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. CROOKS:
Q  Mr. Douglas, would you again give your full name for the record, please.
A  Gerald L. Douglas.
Q  Where do you live, sir?
A  Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Q  What is your employment?
A  Deputy United States Marshal.
Q  And is that for the district of South Dakota?
A  Yes, it is.
Q  Calling your attention back to the year, or the month in November, 1975, did you have occasion to take a fingerprint of an individual by the name of Robert Robideau?
A  Yes, I did.
Q  I hand you Exhibit No. 3 and ask if this is something you've seen before?
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A  Yes, it is. Those are the fingerprints I took from Mr. Robideau on November 11, 1976.
Q  The marking here is 11/9/76 and sometimes depending on which order, but it is, the meaning of that is November 11, or, excuse me November the 9th?
A  I think that we did, he was arrested by our office on November 9th. I fingerprinted on November 11.
Q  Okay.
Insofar as Exhibit No. 3 is concerned, would you state just in very general terms how this document was prepared?
A  It was prepared at the Minnehaha County Jail at Sioux Falls on November 11. I went down about 10:00 o'clock that morning. I asked Mr. Robideau if I could take his fingerprints; he responded it would be all right and I rolled fingerprints at the county jail.
Q  There are indications on each little block within the fingerprint card designating a finger and to the best of your recollection do the little blocks truly and correctly correspond to the finger of whichever hand is indicated?
A  Yes, they do.
Q  And insofar as Mr. Robideau is concerned, is he an individual who you knew before that time and after that time as being Robert Robideau?
A  Yes.
MR. CROOKS:  The United States would offer Exhibit No. {3003} 3 and I would state for the record there is a piece of masking tape on the reverse side of this to cover some extraneous material that was placed upon the exhibit by myself.
MR. TAIKEFF:  No objection.
THE COURT:  Exhibit 3 is received.
MR. LOWE:  May we approach the bench, Your Honor?
THE COURT:  You may.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were at the bench:)
MR. LOWE:  Mr. Taikeff was not aware of one issue raised. I think that that ought to be blocked out in some way. I think it is not relevant to this trial. I think there may be some inferences drawn from the jury in the fact --
MR. CROOKS:  You can save the long speech. I'll stipulate to that.
MR. LOWE:  Make that --
THE COURT:  How do you want to block it out?
MR. CROOKS:  I would think just a piece of masking tape.
MR. LOWE:  I don't think there is anything. I haven't looked on the back.
MR. CROOKS:  This was one of the reasons we blocked out. There was some extraneous material there, too.
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MR. LOWE:  We can do it the same way.
MR. CROOKS:  I have no objection.
MR. LOWE:  No objection.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had in the courtroom in the hearing and presence of the jury:)
MR. CROOKS:  I would, Your Honor, for the record indicate that the clerk pursuant to agreement of Counsel has blocked out further extraneous material and I now reoffer it at this time.
MR. LOWE:  No objection, Your Honor.
THE COURT:  Very well.
The record may show that Exhibit 3 is received.
MR. CROOKS:  We have no further questions.
MR. LOWE:  We have no questions of this witness, Your Honor.
THE COURT:  You may step down.