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US vs LEONARD PELTIER
TRIAL TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS Case Number CR77-3003 |
CROSS EXAM OF MICHAEL ANDERSON
THE COURT: You may proceed.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
BY MR. LOWE:
Q Mr. Anderson, my name is John Lowe. Have we ever met before?
A No.
Q We didn't? Did we meet earlier today?
A Yes.
Q Downstairs on the second floor?
A Yes.
Q And on the occasion that we met down there, did I tell
you that the purpose of my coming down was to obtain an interview with
you so we were able to tell what you knew about the case?
A Yes.
Q Did I tell you that all I wanted you to do was tell me
the truth?
A Yes.
Q And did you refuse to do so?
A Yes.
Mr. HULTMAN: I object, Your Honor. It's a clear inference,
the question immediately was he refused to tell the truth.
MR. LOWE: If you'll let me finish, Counsel, I'll finish
questioning.
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MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, might I make my objection, please?
THE COURT: Proceed.
MR. HULTMAN: I object, Your Honor, to the question as being
misleading; that it's leaving a clear inference with the jury that the
response left an impression that he was not being truthful and I believe
that is a clear misconception and I would ask to interpose a voir dire
with one simple question.
MR. LOWE: Your Honor, I would like to finish my direct
examination. I've asked simple, direct interrogatory questions which are
proper. The witness has had no trouble in answering them and has not indicated
he has any trouble in answering. There is a purpose in cross-examination
and that is what Mr. Hultman wants to do. I do not choose to have him do
his cross-examination in the middle of any direct examination and assist
the witness. I would oppose having any voir dire at this point. The witness
has indicated no trouble in my questions.
THE COURT: Proceed.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Mr. Anderson, so in fact you refused to
tell me anything, didn't you?
A Yes.
Q And you understood that there was court reporter sent
down by the judge with us to make sure you were protected and what was
done was proper and what you said was the truth would be {832} recorded?
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, I object.
THE COURT: I think that is a little misleading. The court
reporter was not sent down to record your interview with this witness had
he been willing to talk to you.
MR. LOWE: I understood, Your Honor, that was our request,
of course, was to have the interview recorded so we would be protected
from any claim there was an impropriety. I understand that's what Your
Honor was doing?
THE COURT: It was my understanding the court reporter was
just to be there for the time to determine whether or not the witness was
willing to talk to you.
MR. LOWE: We misunderstood. Our request was clearly on
the occasion we wanted the court reporter there.
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, I'm going to object to any further
inquiry of any kind concerning this matter because it is incompetent and
irrelevant and immaterial to any issue in this case. The witness is here,
he is under oath. Counsel has the right to confrontation and cross-examination
and I urge that this is highly prejudicial.
MR. LOWE: I daresay it's prejudicial if a witness refuses
to tell the truth to Counsel when a request for interview is made. I think
that's something the jury will properly weigh whether the witness is candid
on the witness stand.
THE COURT: You may proceed with your interrogation.
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MR. LOWE: Thank you, Your Honor.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) The following the events that you had described
here, what was the first occasion on which you talked with a police officer
or an FBI agent about what you knew or what you told them you knew about
these events?
A I don't understand the question.
Q In June of 1975 this too, place near Oglala, South Dakota.
You described that you and some other people were on the move for several
days thereafter. You were not arrested, nor was anybody arrested in the
group until you had actually disbursed, isn't that true?
A Yes.
Q What was the first time and occasion that you had to
talk with a police officer or an FBI agent, whichever it was, about what
you knew about this shoot out?
A In Kansas.
Q In Kansas?
A Yes.
Q Was this following the incident you described in which
you were in an automobile that had some problems in a fire?
A Yes.
**Q And who was the agent or the police officer that you
spoke with about this event?
A Gary Adams.
Q Was anybody else present?
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A Yes. Another agent.
Q Do you know what his name is offhand?
A No.
Q And where was it that you were located when these agents
talked to you?
A In Kansas.
Q I understand. Were you in a hospital, in a car, in a
police station, in a motel?
A The federal building.
Q And in what town? Was that Wichita?
A Yes.
Q And how many other people were present in the room with
you when you were interviewed by them, if any?
A Nobody. Two agents.
Q How many days was that after the car blew up?
A I don't really remember.
Q Was it the same day?
A No.
Q Was it the next day?
A I don't remember.
Q Were you under arrest at the time they talked with you?
A Yes.
Q What were you charged with?
A I don't know.
Q Were they state warrants or federal warrants that you
were {835} arrested on?
A I think federal.
Q Do you know if any of the other occupants of the car
were also under arrest at that time?
A No.
Q Had you been put in a jail in Wichita, some sort of a
jail type facility?
A Yes.
Q Was that in the federal building or somewhere else?
A Somewhere else.
Q Were you brought up there by the agents or by someone
else?
A By the agents.
Q And how old were you at the time?
A 16.
Q And did they tell you that they were investigating the
alleged murders of two FBI agents?
A Yes.
Q And did they tell you that they had information that
you were one of the people that was involved in the shooting?
A Yes.
Q Did they tell you that since you were one of the people
involved in the shooting that it was possible you might be charged with
the murder of the agents?
A Yes.
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Q And did they suggest to you that if you cooperated with
them that it would be possible you might not be charged with the murders?
A No.
Q They did not suggest that to you?
A No.
Q Did you realize in your own mind if you succeeded in
giving them information which satisfied them that you might not be charged
with the murders?
A No.
Q You didn't think so. You thought you might be charged
with the murders anyway?
A Yeah.
Q Have you ever been charged with the murders of those
agents?
A No.
Q If I were to suggest that you were arrested on federal
charges relating to the interstate transportation of guns with obliterated
serial numbers and the interstate transportation of unregistered explosive
devices, would that sound like that refreshes your memory?
A No.
Q Were you ever called in front of a magistrate or a judge
of any kind and explained what you were being held for by the FBI?
A Yes.
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Q Do you remember what the judicial officer told you the
charges were?
A I think it was transporting firearms and explosives across
the state line.
Q And did you know that you had -- or let me ask you, do
you know how many charges individually you had against you?
A No.
Q If I suggested that you had nine individual charges,
would that sound about right?
A I'm not sure.
Q Do you know that you had a number of charges, however
many they may have been, it wasn't just a single charge?
A Yes.
Q If I suggested to you that the judicial -- did the judicial
officer tell you what possible punishment you could obtain under the conviction
on those charges?
A I don't remember that.
Q If I suggested that he had --
MR. HULTMAN: If it please Your Honor, the question has
been asked and the question has been answered and I would indicate that
now Counsel is trying to put into the record his own remarks and I object
for that reason.
Counsel, if you just wait until I finish my objection.
MR. LOWE: I thought you were threw, Mr. Hultman.
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MR. HULTMAN: It is obvious, your Honor, the question was
very simple that was asked, the response was very direct, and now counsel
is by repetition, he is only trying to get matters into the record which
this witness -- it is very evident by his last response -- does not have
the knowledge; and I object for that reason, it is repetitious.
MR. LOWE: I have just finished asking the witness whether
he was charged with interstate transportation of weapons and explosive
devices, and first he said "no". Then when I attempted to refresh his recollection,
he himself stated it was interstate transportation of guns and explosive
devices.
This is cross examination, and as long as I ask proper questions
and I am not badgering or overreaching the witness, I think it is proper.
THE COURT: Proceed.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I would suggest to you that the judicial
officer advised you that the charges -- each of the charges against you
carried 10 years in the penitentiary as a maximum punishment -- would that
sound about what you were told?
A I don't remember.
Q You don't remember?
A No.
Q All right. Did Agent Adams and the other agent tell you
{839} that you had a right to have an attorney before they talked with
you?
A Yes.
Q How old did you tell them you were?
A 16.
Q Did they say anything to you about having any of your
parents with you or find out where your parents were located?
A No, I don't remember.
**Q O.k., and did you ask for an attorney?
A Yes.
Q And did they give you one before they talked to you?
A I don't remember.
Q You don't remember whether you had an attorney when you
talked to them or not?
A I disn't have an attorney, wasn't there then when I talked
with them.
Q You had asked for one?
A Yes.
Q And they simply had not gotten one for you?
A No.
Q Did they tell you that you had a right not to talk with
them if you didn't want to?
A Yes.
Q Did they tell you it would be better for you if you did
talk with them?
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A I don't remember.
Q Did they make notes as you were talking to them?
A Yes.
Q Did you tell them the truth?
A No, not all of it.
Q Not all of it, but what you did tell them was true, is
that correct?
A It is part of it.
Q I am not sure I understand your answer. Do you mean that
part of what was true you told them?
A Yes.
Q But you just didn't tell them everything, is that what
you are saying?
A Yes.
Q What you did say to them was true, is that also correct?
A No.
Q What you did say to them was true, is that also correct?
A No.
Q It is not, so you lied?
A Yes.
Q And how long did they talk with you on the first time
that they talked with you?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q Well, was it a half an hour as opposed to all day long?
Can you give me just an estimate of about how long?
A About an hour.
Q An hour?
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A Yes.
Q And what happened at the end of that hour?
A Well, I was refusing to talk until Gary Adams said, "If
you don't talk, I will beat you up in the cell."
Q Gary Adams told you that?
A Yes.
Q And the other agent was present when he said that?
A Yes.
Q And did that make you afraid?
A Yes.
Q And did you understand that you would get beat up if
you didn't give him the answers that he wanted?
A Yes.
Q And did you then give him the answers that you understood
he wanted?
A Yes,
Q When was the next time that Special Agent Gary Adams
talked with you?
A I don't remember.
Q Was it while you were still in Wichita?
A I don't remember.
Q Did Special Agent Gary Adams in that first interview
with you tell you that one of the dead agents was a good friend of his?
A Yes.
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Q Did he seem quite angry about the fact that they had
been killed?
A Yes.
Q Did he seem quite upset?
A Yes.
Q Do you recall an occasion when you were in the tent area
on the 26th of June, 1975, when Leonard Peltier made a statement in your
presence that anyone trying to surrender would probably get shot by the
FBI or the police?
A Yes.
Q When he said that, did you believe that he was probably
right?
A Yes.
Q When Special Agent Gary Adams threatened you in Wichita,
did you recall what Leonard Peltier had told you?
A No.
Q Did you believe that Special Agent Gary Adams was capable
of hurting you if you didn't do what he wanted?
A Yes.
Q When Agent Adams asked you questions on that occasion,
did he ask you questions in this matter -- and I am quoting now I am acting
as though I was Special Agent Adams -- did he ask, for example: Isn't
it true that Leonard Peltier was carrying an A.R. 15, is that the kind
of question he asked you?
A I don't remember.
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Q You say you do not remember?
A No.
Q Did he ask you questions generally in the style of saying:
Isn't it true that a certain fact is true, and then ask you to just tell
whether it is true or not?
A Yes.
Q And by doing that, as a person being interviewed, did
you understand that the substance of the question he was asking you is
what he was looking for in your answer?
A Yes.
Q And did you understand that that was the type of information
that he was threatening you to obtain, do you understand what I am asking?
A I don't understand, no.
Q All right. You said just now that you understood that
the things that he was saying in his question and in asking you, isn't
that true, was exactly what he was looking for. Now, I am asking you, did
you understand that that was what he was telling you you should say or
you would get beaten up?
A Yes.
Q Did you have any other agent or police officer talk to
you, Mike, about this incident while you were in Wichita, or was that the
only interview in Wichita?
A There was another guy from the Firearms Bureau.
Q All right. A Federal officer, do you know?
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A Yes, Tobacco and Firearms.
Q And did he talk with you about the incident on the 26th,
or just about the car?
A No. I just refused to talk to him.
Q All right. Where did you go from Wichita -- were you
released, or did they take you somewhere in custody?
A Took me to the Detention Center.
Q Where is that?
A In Wichita.
Q How long were you there?
A I don't remember.
Q Where was the next place you went after the Detention
Center in Wichita, if you remember?
A Downtown to Phoenix.
Q Phoenix?
A Yes.
Q Were you still under arrest, or were you released by
then?
A Still under arrest.
Q Still under arrest. Were you on bond or were you in custody?
A Custody.
Q Where did they take you?
A To the Detention Center in Phoenix.
Q Do you know why they took you there, did they tell you?
A Yes.
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Q Why did they tell you?
A I had some other charges in Phoenix.
Q O.k. What charges did you have in Phoenix?
A I don't remember.
Q If I suggested that there was a burglary charge there,
would that help your recollection?
A Yes.
Q And did the FBI say they would try to see what they could
do to help you on the burglary charge in Arizona?
A Yes.
Q Have you ever been prosecuted on that burglary charge
or convicted?
A No.
Q Did the FBI tell you that they would try to help you
on your charges in Wichita arising out of the exploded car?
A I don't remember.
Q Have you ever been prosecuted on those charges?
A No.
Q In fact, those charges have been dropped, haven't they?
A Yes.
Q Do you read, Mike?
A Yes.
Q Do you read very well?
A Yes.
Q I am just going to show you -- this is not an exhibit
or {846} anything, just the Constitution of the United States, is what
it happens to be; but I would like to ask you to just read, pick any paragraph,
start out reading.
A Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United
States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United
States and of the States wherein they reside.
Q All right, that's fine, thank you. After Phoenix, where
did you move, where did you stay?
A I went back home.
Q You were released then, weren't you?
A Yes.
Q And where is home? You may have said that, I just didn't
remember.
A Fort Defiance, Arizona.
Q All right. When is the next time that you talked to an
FBI Agent about this case?
A In Alburquerque.
Q In Alburquerque?
A Yes.
Q When was that, do you remember?
A Just the past week ago.
Q Just a week ago?
A Yes, I don't remember the date.
Q If I -- let me ask you this: Did you say it was
a week ago -- you mean literally seven days or ten days ago, or might
{847} it have been a month ago?
A About a month ago, I think it was.
Q Who did you talk with then?
A Gary Adams and Jim Doyle.
Q The same Gary Adams that you spoke with in Wichita?
A Yes.
Q And did you tell them the truth then?
A No.
Q What you told them was true, just wasn't all of it?
A It wasn't all of it.
Q O.k., but what you did tell them was true?
A Yes.
Q Now, to be sure, before I pass on, before, you indicated
in Wichita that part of what you told them was not true. Was part of what
you told them in Alburquerque also not true?
A Yes.
Q And where have you been since then, did you go back home
again from Alburquerque?
A No. I have been going to school.
Q Where did you go to school?
A In Alburquerque, Southwestern Polytechnic School.
Q And then you came up here for the trial?
A Yes.
Q And have you seen Special Agent Adams since you got here?
A Yes.
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Q Did you talk with him again?
A No.
Q Did you talk with somebody, with Special Agent Adams
present, that is, sitting in the room with you?
A No.
Q Where did you see Special Agent Adams, here?
A He picked us up.
Q He came and picked you up.
Now, I want to go back to June 25th, and I want to go back a
little bit before then to get a little bit of background for what you have
told us.
Would you say again about how many days before the shooting incident,
did you arrive at the Jumping Bull area from Farmington, New Mexico?
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A I don't know.
Q Was it about a week or two weeks or four days, just approximately?
A No. Approximately about -- I can't remember.
Q Was it more than two days?
A Yes.
Q Was it as much as two weeks?
A Yes.
Q Was it a month?
A I don't remember.
Q Okay. During that time did you live in the tent area?
A Yes.
Q Do you know who Jeannie Day is? Did you know such a person?
A Yes.
Q Who was Jeannie Day?
A A lady.
Q A lady. Do you know whether she had any particular friendships
with anybody in the camp?
A No.
Q Do you know who Myrtle Poor Bear is?
A No. But I heard of the name.
Q You heard the name?
A Yes.
Q Did you ever see Myrtle Poor Bear in the camp, or the
{850} Jumping Bull's to your knowledge?
A I don't know.
Q Did you know all the people that you did see in the camp
at the Jumping Bulls'? Do you know there names?
A Yes.
Q Was one of them Myrtle Poor Bear?
A I don't know.
Q You had some disagreements with Leonard Peltier over
the question of your drinking, didn't you?
A Yes.
Q Would it be fair to say that Mr. Peltier is, was trying
to get people to stop drinking and was complaining when they did drink?
A Yes.
Q Would it be fair to say that he was trying to help you
to straighten out on that?
A Yes.
Q Do you think he was looking out for your welfare and
trying to help you?
A Yes.
Q Was ho doing that with other people also?
A Yes.
Q And on June 25th, the day before this incident in which
you were confronted by some police officers and FBI officers on Highway
18 along with two friends of yours, at the time you were {851} stopped
you were asked to identify yourselves, and I believe you said you all gave
different names, although you didn't remember the names?
A Yes.
Q Do you remember whether one of the BIA officers who stopped
you was named Ecoffey?
**A No BIA officers stopped us.
Q Pardon?
A They were FBI agents.
Q How many men were with the party that stopped you?
A Two.
Q Only two people?
A Yes.
Q Do you know who they were?
A Willlams and the other agent.
Q Coler?
A Yes.
Q Nobody else was with them?
A No.
Q How many cars did they have?
A One.
Q Just one car?
A (No response.)
Q So there was no BIA police officer there with you when
you were stopped by the FBI agents?
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A I think there was one sitting in the back. I'm not sure.
Q So there might have been one or more?
A Yes.
Q But they told you that they were going to take you to
the BIA jail in Pine Ridge to see if anybody could tell if you were Jimmy
Eagle; is that right?
A Yeah. They didn't tell us where they were taking us,
but they took us there.
Q Did they tell you why you were being taken to see if
somebody could identify you as Jimmy Eagle?
A Yes.
Q Did you know that?
A Yes.
No, I didn't know.
Q You didn't know that at the time?
A No.
Q Do you know Jimmy Eagle?
A Yes.
Q Do you look anything like Jimmy Eagle?
A No.
Q Did either of the other two?
A No.
Q Now, when they first pulled up in the car what was the
first thing they said to you?
A Stop, I think it was.
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Q Did they get out of the car before they talked to you,
or did they talk to you from the car?
A I don't remember.
Q All right. Did you stop and turn around, face them?
A Yes.
Q Did they frisk you, put you up against the car?
A Yes.
Q Did they do the classic thing that we all see on television
where you put your hands on the car and spread your legs and then they
frisk you?
A I'm not too sure.
Q But they did frisk you?
A Yes.
Q Who frisked you, do you remember?
A No.
Q One of the people in the group?
A Yes.
Q Did they ask you for anything or did they simply take
what they found?
A They just asked us to search our towels.
Q Okay. And I believe you said that they told you to get
in the car and you started to walk away?
A Yes.
Q And then what did they say then?
A They told us to get in.
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Q Did they say it rather sharply or did they say it like,
"Hey, would you like to get in?" What did they say?
A Kind of sharply.
Q Did you have any understanding that you had any choice
about whether you got in the car or not?
A Yes, I knew.
Q And what did you think?
A I said I didn't want to get in, but those other two had
gotten in so I got in.
Q Did you think that they would have allowed you to walk
away?
A Yes.
No, I don't think so.
Q In other words you didn't think you had any choice but
to get in the car?
A Yes.
Q They were ordering you in.
Would it be fair to say that they were not courteous and polite
to you, but rather forceful?
A Yes.
Q And when they took you down to the jail they took you
inside the jail building. Was there an officer in there that they brought
you before?
A Yes.
Q And what did they say?
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A They asked the officer if any of us were Jimmy Eagle.
Q And this was one of the FBI agents that did this?
A Yes.
Q Did he tell the BIA officer that you were brought in
front of that a BIA officer that had been riding with them know that you
were not Jimmy Eagle before this confrontation? In other words did the
FBI agents say anything to the second BIA police officer to indicate that
he already knew you weren't Jimmy Eagle?
A No.
Q What happened to the clip that was in the towel?
A I don't know.
Q One of the FBI agents kept it, didn't he?
A Yes.
Q Did he try to explain to Norman Charles that he had some
kind of a legal right to carry this clip?
A I don't know.
Q He just kept it?
A Yes.
Q Would it be fair to say that on the reservation Indians,
particularly young Indians don't argue with FBI agents and challenge their
authority?
A I don't know.
Q You certainly didn't, did you?
A No.
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Q Do you remember an occasion in which a store had a fire
in it prior to this occasion while you were just living in the are and
got burned, the roof?
A Yes.
Q Did you or any of your friends in the encampment area
there do anything about that?
A No.
Q You were not present if anybody else did that, is that
true?
A No.
Q Were there pipe ceremonies held in the area while you
were present during this couple of weeks when you got back from Farmington,
New Mexico?
A Yes.
Q Did you attend some of those?
A Yes.
Q Are they religious ceremonies?
A Yes.
Q Do you believe in the religion of the pipe?
A Yes.
Q And were any of these attended by medicine men or special
spiritual leaders, or was it just the people in the area?
A I don't remember.
Q Okay. Was there a sweat lodge in the encampment?
A Yes.
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Q Explain what a sweat lodge is.
A Sweat lodge is made of cottonwood bent over and put blankets,
or whatever on top of it to hold in the heat.
There's a hole dug in the middle, there's sagebrush spread all
over the ground where you sit on and the rocks are heated and you put in
the hole.
Q Does this have spiritual meaning to you who believe in
the religion of the pipe?
A Yes.
Q Is this a purification procedure among other things?
A Yes.
Q And was the sweat lodge used during the weeks that you
were living there in the encampment?
A Yes.
Q Was there conversation between people who lived in the
encampment, including Mr. Peltier, and you and the others about religious
matters and spiritual matters and the need to recapture your spirituality?
A Yes.
Q Was there also discussion about helping the people in
the community to organize their efforts to help themselves and to make
a good life for themselves?
A Yes.
Q And was Mr. Peltier one of the leaders in that regard?
A Yes.
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Q In the time that you were living there over those several
weeks would you say that it would be fair to indicate that people were
afraid of violence from different groups on the reservation and everybody
really went around constantly worried about violence?
A Yes.
Q Would it be fair to say that almost everybody on the
reservation had guns to defend themselves?
A I don't know.
Q Did a lot of the people that you had contact with, both
in the encampment and also in Oglala, have guns to protect themselves?
A No.
Q All right. Do you know what I mean when I talk about
goons?
A Yes.
Q Was it, would it be true to say that the people in the
encampment area that you were living with were afraid of attacks by goons?
A Yes.
Q Would it be fair to say that it was very bad blood between
the goons and the people in the encampment area? That is, that they didn't
like each other?
A Yes.
Q In the time that you were living there did you become
aware {859} of incidents of violence in which people were shot or injured
or beaten up?
A Yes.
Q Would it be fair to say that the people that live in
Oglala in this general community around the Jumping Bull area were also
aware of that type of violence on the reservation?
A Yes.
Q And would it also be fair to say that particularly the
older people were very worried and afraid because of that violence?
A Yes.
Q You said that you had heard the name Myrtle Poor Bear.
Where did you first hear the name Myrtle Poor Bear?
A I don't remember.
Q Is it possible that one of the FBI agents --
MR. HULTMAN: If it please Your Honor, this question has
been asked and been asked here again. I indicate that it's repetitious
and an attempt by counsel to get something in the record. Make himself,
the witness --
MR. LOWE: It's cross-examination, Your Honor. I think I'm
entitled to probe.
THE COURT: Well, you are entitled to probe, but you're
not entitled to present evidence that isn't before the, in the record.
MR. LOWE: I'm just asking if it was, he has indicated {860}
that he's had several interviews with FBI agents. I think it's proper if
the FBI mentioned it to him.
THE COURT: You may ask him that.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Is it possible that the FBI mentioned that
name to you and that's where you heard it?
A I don't know.
Q Okay. You mentioned Jimmy Zimmermann. Do you know about
how old Jimmy Zimmermann was?
A No, I don't remember.
Q Was he near twenty or was he older? Teenager, a young
kid, what was he?
A A young guy. About ten years old.
Q About ten years old?
A Yeah.
MR. LOWE: May we approach the bench, Your Honor, please?
THE COURT: You may.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had at the bench:)
MR. LOWE: This is an area that I'm not clear of, if your
order circumscribes, but I want an abundance of caution to check with you
first in some of the materials that he has given, the Government has given
us pursuant to the thirty-five hundred disclosures.
Mr. Anderson listed an Anna Mae Aquash who is a person {861}
who had been in the encampment area, I believe, and I'm not going to ask
anything other than to see if he knows that person and can say whether
that person was one of the occupants or visitors to that area prior to
the incidents. And I think that's a proper question. But I thought I should
check with you first.
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, my objection is that this is no
showing of any kind that this person in any way had anything to do with
any of the events that are concerned in this trial, and that this again
is an attempt to got a name before this jury.
Counsel makes no showing of any kind that this individual had
anything to do, and I'm sure the record will likewise at the end of this
trial indicate such. The mere fact that somebody lived in the area at one
time or another, unless there was some showing or basis. Now, what has
happened, Your Honor, so that the Court will know, this woman was later
found murdered. There's been no showing, there was not in the last trial,
there's no showing to my knowledge in any way, not one scintilla of evidence,
that she in any way connected with these events at all.
That the only reason that counsel is attempting to get this name
before the jury is in order to raise an issue which is not relevant and
to prejudice the jury with an issue which has nothing to do with the trial.
That is why I object {862} even to the raising of the question of the name
of the individual.
MR. TAIKEFF: Your Honor, I believe that a document was
prepared by the United States Government at the request of Judge Boeg which
listed the name of every person who possibly might have been in the area
on June 26, 1975. And I'm wondering if the Government would state whether
Anna Mae Aquash's name appears on that list.
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, that document was prepared at
the request --
MR. TAIKEFF: I didn't hear the answer to my question.
MR. HULTMAN: I'm going to answer your question to my leisure.
I don't have to answer yes or no as some witnesses do.
MR. TAIKEFF: I see.
MR. HULTMAN: That request, Your Honor, was made by Judge
Boeg. It was in a very early proceeding and the Government did its very
best to put together a list of any possible people who could have even
possibly been in or out of the area.
They did list -- did not state that these individuals were there.
It was a massive list of anybody whose names came up any time of having
been in the area at any time, and that's what the list consisted of.
In no way did it show or indicate that there was any relevancy
as to any kind as to any of these individuals.
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MR. TAIKEFF: Now, may I have the answer to my question,
Your Honor.
MR. HULTMAN: I have answered the question to the best of
my ability.
MR. TAIKEFF: I asked whether or not Anna Mae Aquash's name
was on that list.
MR. HULTMAN: You've showed it to me.
MR. TAIKEFF: Well, I don't want to make a representation
that I'm not sure of, and I'm asking --
MR. HULTMAN: I didn't know whether it was myself or not.
I'm making the best representation.
MR. LOWE: Let me state, Judge, two things that make it
relevant. First, there is going to be lots of evidence in this case of
unidentified parties who are unidentified even today who escaped through
other routes not with this group, as we've heard escaping; that there were
many people. They will be identified by FBI evidence as having other people,
because of the identification of weapons, of cartridge cases fired from
other weapons.
We had at least one witness, Mrs. Long Visitor and her husband,
who snuck away on a different route. This is in the FBI 302 forms. We believe
that they are entitled to show the identities of any people who were living
in or visiting to the area prior to this incident to lay a foundation for
other evidence that may be relevant.
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Now, we may not be able to connect them up, but this witness
has stated to an FBI agent that Anna Mae Aquash was in this encampment
area during the period he was there. And I think there's nothing objectionable
to that. I realize that I cannot go into the incidents after June 26 without
your authority, but I at least can ask this.
MR. HULTMAN: I'd just respond once more, Your Honor, and
then I'll not in the future.
One, there is not any scintilla of evidence anywhere where I've
seen in any document or any testimony that Anna Mae Aquash could possibly
have been there that day, on the day we're talking about. If counsel will
indicate to me that they have evidence that that if the fact then, Your
Honor, I will take a different posture and a different position than what
I have to this particular moment.
THE COURT: Well, I will permit counsel to simply ask the
question if he knows, if this witness knows whether or not this particular
person was in the area.
MR. HULTMAN: On the day of the event?
MR. LOWE: Or prior to it.
MR. HULTMAN: Well, John, the issue is whether she's there
that day.
MR. LOWE: Curly, that's your issue, that's not just what
happened on the 26th. You yourself have brought in a whole lot of days
afterwards.
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MR. HULTMAN: Your basis is the fact that there is a list
showing or at least I got Elliot's observation that, and you said the same
thing, that there are many people who are represented to be there that
day.
MR. LOWE: That's one issue, that's true.
MR. HULTMAN: Well, is that the one were addressing, or
isn't it?
MR. LOWE: This is cross-examination and if I can establish
that she was there as this witness has told the FBI, I think I'm entitled
to use that.
As I say there were unidentified people there on the 26th that
we never have identified, nor has the FBI.
+*MR. TAIKEFF: Your Honor, here is a 302 dated September
9, 1975 by two special agents indicating that they were going around attempting
to ascertain if witnesses could tell them whether or not Anna Mae Aquash
was in the camp. So that surely the Government was interested in that question.
MR. LOWE: That's who that is, that's her married name.
MR. HULTMAN: And there's no showing as a result that she
was. That's the point I'm trying to make that all investigation and if
you will indicate to me any evidence, any scintilla of evidence that you
are prepared to show that she was, then I will raise my objection.
MR. TAIKEFF: If we find out from these witnesses {866}
whether she was.
THE COURT: I'm going to permit that question be asked of
this witness.
MR. HULTMAN: Is that going to be a limited question, Your
Honor?
THE COURT: (No response.)
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(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had in the courtroom
in the hearing and presence of the jury:)
Q (By Mr. Lowe) During the time you were in the encampment
area those several weeks, did you then or prior to that time know someone
named Anna Mae Aquash or Ann Mae Pick Toe?
A Yes.
Q Was this a woman you personally had met or just the name
you had heard?
A A woman I had personally met.
Q And was she from time to time in the encampment area?
A Yes.
Q Do you know whether or not she was in the encampment
area on June 26th?
A No.
Q On June 26th, the day that the shooting took place, first
of all, did you spend the night before in the tent area?
A Yes.
Q Were you sleeping in the tent with Jimmy Zimmerman?
A Yes.
Q What time did you arrive the next morning?
A I don't, I don't have a watch to tell.
Q Was it light when you got up?
A Yes.
Q Do you know whether it was early morning or mid-morning
or late morning?
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A I think about mid-morning.
Q Did you have any breakfast?
A Yes.
Q Was it cooked breakfast or cold breakfast?
A Cooked.
Q Who cooked it?
A I ate up at June Little's place.
Q Now in the past while living in the encampment, was that
something that you did frequently, to go up to June Little's for breakfast
or was this a special occasion of some kind?
A No. I just went up there that morning and they asked
me to eat.
Q Did you normally eat in the tent area?
A Yes.
Q On that morning can you tell me who was living in the
houses up around the Jumping Bull area called the residences? Describe
the different houses and who you know was staying there?
A Well, there is old man and old lady Jumping Bull.
Q That's Harry and Ceclia?
A Yes.
Q Do you know which house they stayed in?
A They lived in the white house, the big one.
Q Is that the large white house in the center of Government
Exhibit 71?
A Yes.
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Q And let me ask you something.
MR. LOWE: May I approach the witness, Your Honor?
THE COURT: You may.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I just asked you if the white house was
the large house in the center of Government Exhibit 71 and you didn't even
turn around to look. I'm curious, have you ever seen that exhibit before
today?
A Yes.
Q When did you first see that exhibit?
A Little piece of paper.
Q How long ago was that?
A Last night.
Q Last night?
A Yes.
Q Who showed it to you?
A United States attorney.
Q Which one is that?
A The one in the middle.
Q The one in the middle. Mr. Hultman?
A Yes.
Q And did he go over that with you and show you the different
things that were on the map, tell you what the different symbols meant?
A No. I already know what they were.
Q You did?
A Yes.
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Q And how long did you look at that paper last night would
you say from the time he showed it to you until the time you were no longer
looking at it?
A I don't know.
Q Half an hour, two hours?
A About two hours.
Q Two hours.
Did he go over your story with you for that two hours?
A No. I just told him what the truth was and all.
Q And did he go over that sketch with you?
A Yes.
Q And did he go over it so much you remembered it without
ever looking up there that there was a large white house in the middle
of it?
A No. I remembered it.
Q You remembered. All right.
Turning around for a moment, to be sure we're talking about the
same house, there is a symbol here which has a label that says "White House"
on it. Is that the house you're referring to that Cecilia and Harry Jumping
Bull lived in?
A Yes.
Q Who else, if anybody else, lived in that house with them?
A I don't know. I think that's all.
Q Do you know if they were there on the early morning of
June 26th?
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A No.
Q You don't know.
Do you know if they slept the night there?
A No.
Q There is a house here which is identified as a shed.
Did anybody stay in that house, that shed?
A No.
Q There is a house here identified as "Green House." Did
anybody live in that house?
A Yes.
Q Who?
A Ivis and Angie Long Visitor.
Q Do they have a child or children?
A Yes.
Q How many?
A Two.
Q Were they there over the night of June 25th to the morning
of June 26th, do you know?
A Yes.
Q Did you see them on the morning of June 26th?
A Yes.
Q Then there is a house up here called "Log Cabin." Who
lived in that house?
A Dennis and his wife.
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Q How about this house here?
A Nobody.
Q And I believe you already stated this was the house of
June Little and Wanda Sears?
A Yes.
Q How many people lived in there besides the two of them?
A Their two daughters.
Q Anybody else?
A I don't know.
Q How about Jumping Bull Hall? Nobody said anything about
that. Did anybody live in Jumping Bull Hall?
A No.
Q Have you described all of the occupants of these houses
in this general area of Jumping Bull Hall compound other than the tent
area?
A Yes.
Q I believe you said that you were at, I think your testimony
was that you were at the Wanda Sears house or the June Little house and
saw the red and whitevan Pull in?
A Yes.
Q Did you see that yourself or did somebody tell you that
happened?
A No. I seen it.
Q You did.
And where were you located when that came in?
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A I was laying on top of the roof.
Q You were laying on top of the roof of the house?
A Yeah.
Q What time was this about?
A I don't know. I didn't have no time.
Q Was it mid-morning, early morning, early afternoon?
A Think it was mid-morning.
Q Mid-morning.
Would you say that it might be around 10:00 o'clock?
A Might have been.
Q How long was that after you had gotten up would you estimate?
A I don't know.
Q Ten minutes, two hours, hour, half hour?
A I don't know.
Q Did you go directly to the June Little residence after
you got up or did you do some things in the camp area first?
A I went directly to the house.
Q You did?
A Yes.
Q Had they made arrangements the day before for you to
come have breakfast with them or had they sent word to the tent area that
morning?
A No. I just walked up there.
Q And so after you got up there you ate your breakfast?
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A Yes.
Q Then you went and got up on the roof of the house?
A Yes.
Q Now if I was to suggest to you that there -- strike that.
You saw the red and white van come in and where did you see the
red and white van go or stop when it first came in there and you were on
the roof?
A Stopped behind a house.
Q Now when you say "behind a house," are you referring
to this house, first of all, the residence?
A Yes.
Q And on which side of the house are you referring to?
A Trees on this side (indicating).
Q Over here. There are some trees shown on what is the
north side of this residence. Are you speaking about in those trees?
A Yes.
Q And that's where you saw the red and white van stopped?
A (Witness nods affirmatively.)
Q Where did the people go that were in there?
A They all got out and started talking.
Q Who was in it?
A Leonard and Norman and Bill.
Q And they just got out and started talking.
How long were they standing there talking?
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A I don't know. I think about five minutes.
Q About five minutes.
Then you said you saw somebody else come in.
A Yeah.
Q And where did they come?
A I don't know which way they came through but just come
down the road.
Q And they drove right by the house, didn't they?
A Yes. They drove in front of the house.
Q And did you jump off the roof when you saw them drive
by?
A Yes.
Q How high is the roof?
A Not too high.
Q Well, how high is not too high; ten feet?
A I don't know. About. Yeah, about ten feet.
Q Not as high as this ceiling?
A No.
Q And did you then walk around by the various houses you
described to go back to the tent area?
A No. I went inside the house and hid in there.
Q You went inside of the residence?
A Yes.
Q And hid in there.
And who did you see inside the residence when you did that:
anybody?
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A No.
Q You didn't see anybody in there at all?
A No.
Q You didn't see June Little or Wanda Sears or their two
daughters?
A June Little and Wanda was there and their kids.
Q I thought you just said you didn't see anybody in there.
A Well, they were home already. They were there.
Q That's not what I asked. I asked you, did you see them
when you went in the house?
A Yeah.
Q At that time?
A I saw them in the house. When June went out and started
talking with them, FBI, because they stopped in front of the house and
they both got out and walked to the door and asked if they seen Jimmy Eagle
around.
Q I thought you said you got down off the roof when they
went by.
A No. That's when they were coming, then I jumped off before.
Q So you jumped down before they got to the house?
A Yeah. Then I went in the house.
Q Then you went inside. Then they drove past the house
after they talked with June Little, is that your testimony?
A Yes.
Q That's when you got out and walked around the top of
the {877} crest of the plateau there?
A Yes.
Q Now what I want to do here, I've got a sketch here. Can
you see that all right from where you are?
A Yes.
Q This is nothing more than a copy of Government Exhibit
71 which we made from a piece of paper that the government gave us. I suspect
probably the same kind you looked at last night. And what I want to do,
be sure I understand exactly where you say you went, what route you took
and where you did various things. So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to mark where you tell me on here. If I put a mark in the wrong place,
you tell me that, too. It will be better than putting a lot of marks up
on that exhibit because that's the government's exhibit.
The first thing we're talking about, I circled in red there,
that's the house you were in when you started to leave after the FBI drove
by, am I correct?
A Yes.
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Q And if I understand your testimony correctly, you said
that you walked generally around this way (indicating), is that correct?
A Yes.
Q O.k.
A Along the fence.
Q Along the fence, did you say?
A Yes.
Q All right. There is a fence along this field?
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, I believe it is a misstatement
of the record. I think the record will show that he didn't walk, he ran.
MR. LOWE: The witness is testifying on cross examination.
Mr. Hultman can take him on redirect.
MR. HULTMAN: It is a clear misstatement of the record,
that's the point I wish to make, and ask the witness -- may I voir dire
one question, your Honor?
MR. LOWE: I don't want redirect in the middle of my examination,
your Honor.
THE COURT: Just a moment.
Members of the jury, you may recall that I have previously instructed
you that if counsel do misstate the evidence, you should disregard it,
and that it is your own recollection which will be controlling on this
matter; {879} and if the statements by counsel on either side are at odds
with your recollection, it must be your recollection that controls. You
may proceed.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Were you walking or were you running over
to the fence?
A Running.
Q You were running?
A Yes.
Q The fence is along this field here (indicating), is that
right?
A Yes.
Q All right. So you went over the fence, and you walked
along the fence, something like that (indicating)?
MR. HULTMAN: I object again, your Honor. The record shows
he was running, and counsel again is saying he was walking.
MR. LOWE: I will strike that, your Honor.
THE COURT: Very well.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Now, were you running or walking when you
got to the fence?
A Running.
Q All right. You were running along the fence, but you
followed this route as you were going along the fence, is that correct?
A Yes.
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Q Did you go behind the houses?
A Yes.
Q And I believe you said that you cut over in this general
direction (indicating), is that correct?
A Yes.
Q And if I am tracing where you pointed, I believe you
said you just took a route across here (indicating), over to the tent area,
is that correct, something like that, is that correct?
A Yes.
Q Now, what I want to do, we have a measuring stick here,
with your assistance I want to try and see if you can tell me about how
far that is; and this is marked off in feet from zero to twelve hundred
feet; and if you will watch while I do that, I am going to try and scale
this off so we can tell about how far you went. I am going to start by
putting the zero on the house. Would you say that you went over on a fairly
straight line from the house to the fence?
A Yes.
Q All right. That measures about 300 feet over to that
line, is that about where you went?
A Yes.
Q All right. So 300 feet, then I am going to turn here
so we can get it to go down the fence line, that's what you said you did.
you went down the fence line?
A Yes.
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Q To a point behind the house, measures 900, and actually
did you go practically a straight line across then?
A Yes.
Q All right, and let's just put it up -- I will do it to
a thousand, that's a little easier, put it on the zero again.
A Stayed on top of the hill all the way up to the top.
Q Stayed up here (indicating), up to here, that's 2,000;
and it looks like it is about another 500 to the tent area. So it is about
twenty-five hundred feet, you agree that's about the distance that you
went along the route there?
A Yes.
Q All right. Twenty-five hundred feet. There are 5,280
feet in a mile. That's pretty close to a half mile, isn't it?
You will have to answer because the court reporter can't take
down a nod.
A Yes.
Q Did you run the whole way or did you walk some?
A Well, when I was almost there, I walked some.
Q O.k. How long would you say it takes you to run and walk
that distance, the way you did it on that day?
A Well, I don't know.
Q Do you think it would take 10 minutes?
A Yeah, about 10 minutes.
Q About 10 minutes.
Then when you got down into the tent area, what did you do, {882}
did you talk to anybody, did you do anything, sit down in the tent?
A I don't remember. I just picked up a rifle and ran back
up.
Q O.k. How long would you say you were in the tent area
before you actually started running back up again, were you there, let's
say as much as five minutes?
A I don't know.
Q Could it have been longer than that or less than that,
do you have any idea?
A No.
Q O.k. So then you ran back up with the rifle. Who was
there when you got there?
A Charles and Stuntz and Brown, I think it was. I'm not
too sure.
Q Charles and Stuntz and Brown were there?
A Yes, on the hill.
Q Oh, on the hill, I'm sorry. Let me clear up what I am
asking, you misunderstood.
When you got to the tent area, who was in the tent area?
A The girls, Dino, Wish, Jimmy, and I think that was all.
Q By "Wish", you mean Wilford Draper?
A Yes.
Q And did anybody else grab a gun and run up with you?
A No. I ran by myself.
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Q And what route did you use to run back up, can you take
the pointer and indicate on Exhibit 71?
A (Indicating) Ran back this way along the river here (indicating),
and then I went over here to about here (indicating).
Q All right. Was there a particular place you ran to up
there?
A Yeah, I think it was behind the white house.
Q All right. So when you got into the tent area, you then
left, went by the road, down to here (indicating), and then cut up behind
to the white house, is that approximately the route that you described?
A Yes.
Q All right. Now, we will go up and see if we can figure
out about how far that is. I don't know if we had any testimony about that
or not, what we were talking about.
Could we say you ran out in this direction (indicating) from
the tent to the road?
A Yes.
Q That would be about 450 feet down to here (indicating),
it makes it about eleven hundred feet to there (indicating), and up in
the back would add another about 500 feet. Would you be satisfied that
was about sixteen hundred feet that you ran?
A Yes, I think so.
Q O.k. So we have about sixteen hundred feet that you ran
{884} and how long would you say it took you to run that, you had your
gun, you had just run a half mile, do you have any recollection?
A No.
Q Now, when you got up to the back of the white house --
is that where you went?
A Yes.
Q What did you first see when you got to the back of the
white house or hear?
A I heard shooting.
Q Pardon?
A I heard shooting.
Q All right. Let's stop at that point when you heard shooting.
Up until that point as you were running along the back of the
fence, down to the tent area, first of all, during that period of time
did you hear shooting?
A Yes.
Q About how many shots did you hear before you got to the
tent area the first time?
A About four.
Q Four shots only?
A Yes.
Q All right, and between getting your gun and running up
to the back of the white house, how many more shots did you hear {885}
in that period?
A I don't know.
Q Did you hear any?
A Yes.
Q Was it only one or two, as opposed to 10 or 20?
A Yeah, about 10 or 20
Q 10 or 20?
A Yes.
Q When you got to the back of the white house, did you
see anybody that you recognized up there?
A Charles and Stuntz.
Q And what were they doing?
A Shooting.
Q And who were they shooting at, or what direction were
they shooting?
A Down on the cars.
Q Down on which cars?
A The FBI cars.
MR. LOWE: May I have a moment, your Honor?
(Counsel confer.)
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Tell us again what weapon you picked up
in the tent area.
A .22 caliber.
Q What kind of weapon did Norman Brown have?
A .22 caliber.
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Q You had two .22 calibers?
A Yes.
Q What kind of gun did Norman Charles have?
A Something like a 308 British.
Q The 308 British?
A Yes.
Q Where have you heard the term, 308, who told you that,
or where did you learn that?
A I don't know. I just looked at it.
Q You looked at it?
A Yes.
Q It says "308"?
A Yes.
MR. LOWE: May I have that weapon?
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I show you Government Exhibit 69-A. Is
this the weapon you were referring to?
A Yes.
Q Would you please examine this to satisfy yourself you
have looked it it enough time, and tell me where on there you see "308"?
A (Examining) I don't know. It don't say it on there. I
don't see it on there.
Q You don't see it on there. Isn't it a fact that the first
time you first heard the term, "308", was from the Government?
A Yes.
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MR. LOWE: Thank you. Can we stipulate this is not a "308"?
MR. HULTMAN: John, the record will show at this time, I
believe correctly, that he did not identify this particular weapon. He
might have seen one similar or like it.
MR LOWE: His testimony was just heard by the jury. My question
is: Can we stipulate that's not a 308?
(Counsel examines exhibit.)
MR. LOWE: You find it is a 302?
MR. HULTMAN: 303 Infield.
MR. LOWE: I know what it is.
MR. HULTMAN: It is a British Infield, isn't that correct?
Q (By Mr. Lowe ) What kind of weapon did you see Joe Stuntz
using?
A A .44 Ruger.
Q How do you know it was a .44 Ruger?
A Because it was short.
Q How do you know it was a .44, for example?
A Well, I noticed it, and he showed it to me.
Q How do you know it was a Ruger?
A Because he showed it to me.
Q He told you?
A Yes.
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Q Isn't it true, Mr. Anderson, that the Government told
you that was a .44 --
MR. HULTMAN: (Interrupting) I object, your Honor. I clearly
object. This question has been asked, and it has been answered. It is an
attempt by counsel to get something before this jury that is not a matter
of record here.
MR. LOWE: All he has to do is deny that. It is a proper
cross examination question.
THE COURT: He has answered that Joe Stuntz told him.
MR. LOWE: I want to know whether the Government also told
him. It has been almost two years.
THE COURT I did not understand you to put in the word "also".
MR. LOWE: Again on cross examination -- I will rephrase
it if the Court desires.
THE COURT: You may.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Didn't the Government also tell you that
was a .44 Ruger?
A Yes.
Q In fact, the Government was very helpful when they interviewed
you?
MR. HULTMAN: I object, your Honor, as this is clearly an
action on the part of counsel which is inappropriate.
THE COURT: The objection is sustained.
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Q (By Mr. Lowe) Now, you have told us of a number of people
who were at the Jumping Bull area on June 26th when the shooting took place.
Isn't it also true that Jimmy Eagle was at Jumping Bull's on the 26th?
A I don't know. I didn't see him.
Q You didn't see him?
A No.
Q Do you remember telling one of the agents that he was
there on the 26th?
A Yes.
Q You say you got behind the white house, we had gotten
to that point, and at that point you heard -- between the tents and the
white house, you heard 10 to 20 more shots. You were up there with your
.22.
What, if any firing, did you do from that position?
A I had to move up and go shoot down toward the cars.
Q Towards the cars. Were you shooting at the cars, or were
you shooting at the two people down there?
A The cars.
Q The cars. You realize it would be pretty serious stuff
if you were shooting at the people, don't you?
A Yes.
Q And how about Joe Stuntz and Norman Charles, what were
they doing, who were they shooting at?
A I don't know.
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Q Were they shooting --
MR. HULTMAN: (Interrupting) I object, your Honor. There
has been no foundation laid in any way as to the capability of this witness
knowing who the two other individuals were shooting at. He has been asked
on foundation, and the question has been answered that the witness does
not know.
Now, this is an attempt on the part of counsel again to put words
into the witness' mouth; and I submit that this is not proper examination
at this point. Once the foundation has been laid, it has been laid by counsel.
MR. LOWE: That's absolutely false to begin with. If we
can have the question read back, the question had nothing to do with that.
I think if Mr. Hultman would listen to the question before he objects,
he would realize that.
THE COURT: The reporter will read the question back. I
am not sure that a question was ever asked.
MR. LOWE: I did ask a question. Mr. Hultman jumped on top
of it.
(Question was read by the reporter.)
MR. LOWE: That was the question in its entirety:
Were they shooting? That is my question, I think it is proper question.
THE COURT: That is a proper question.
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MR. LOWE: Thank you.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Do you understand what the question is?
A No.
Q Let me state it again. Were Joe Stuntz and Norman Charles
shooting?
A Yes.
Q What direction were they shooting in?
A I don't know, down towards the cars, I guess.
Q Towards the cars, and by that you mean the two agents'
cars, as opposed to the cars on Highway 18?
A Yes.
Q O.k. so whether or not you could tell exactly where they
were aiming with their sights, they were shooting generally in the direction
of the two cars, weren't they?
A No, I don't know.
Q Well, were they shooting down into the little valley
there, the bowl?
A Yes.
Q That's all I am asking.
As I understood your testimony and as I tried to make notes on
it, you said that at that time one Special Agent was standing behind the
uplifted trunk of his car, is that correct?
A Yes.
Q I am not sure if you said the trunk was up or you were
just saying he was behind the trunk. Was the trunk up or down?
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A Up.
Q And you indicated that the other person you saw was shooting
a handgun, is that correct?
A Yes.
Q And that that was the first time you saw either of the
two cars or the two men down there, that's what they were doing?
A Yes.
Q How many shots did you observe them to fire from their
various weapons the first time you looked down and saw them shooting?
A I don't know.
Q Well, was it 10 shots, was it two shots, was it 20 shots?
A I don't know.
Q Well, about how many?
MR. HULTMAN: I object, your Honor. This question now has
been asked and answered twice, that the witness does not know, and further
question would be repetitious, and again an attempt on the part of counsel
-- the question has been fairly asked and fairly answered twice.
{893}
THE COURT: But the witness has twice that he does not know.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Isn't it a fact, Mr. Anderson, that the
first time you saw two people down by those cars, they were lying prone
and you thought they were both dead already?
A The first time?
Q The first time.
A No.
Q Isn't it true that you only appeared on the hill and
saw the cars for the first time after the agents had been killed?
A Yes.
Q That is true, isn't it?
A Where, on the hill? I don't understand the question.
Q By the houses, by the houses.
A I don't understand the question.
Q All right. Let me back down a little bit.
Let's get something straight here because you've used the area,
and maybe we're all misunderstanding. Would you point on Exhibit 71 using
the pointer. When you saw "the hill", tell the jury what you are referring
to, point to it.
A This hill (indicating).
Q That hill there?
A Yes.
Q When you went up the first time you say you were by the
white house. Were you on the hill or were you down off the hill?
{894} How does that hill relate to the white house? Was the white house
on the hill?
A No. The white house is over here (indicating) and the
hill is right here (indicating).
Q All right. Is the hill behind the white house then?
A Yes.
Q But the white house is not on the hill?
A No.
Q It's off of the hill?
A It's on the hill over here, on this one.
Q All right. So when you have said from time to time that
you were on the hill you are referring to the hill behind the white house?
A No. The hill where the house is.
Q The hill where the house is?
A Yes.
Q Well, I just asked you if it isn't true that the first
time you appeared on the hill, referring to the one the white house is
on, that's what I thought I was referring to that the agents had already
been killed. Now, can you answer that question?
A When's this?
Q The first time you appeared on the hill where the white
house is, isn't it not true that the agents had already been killed?
{895}
A No.
Q Is it not true that the first time you saw the two men
that one of them was firing a rifle and the other was firing a handgun?
A Yes.
Q Well, which one was firing the rifle?
A The one behind the trunk.
Q So he was not just standing behind the trunk, but he
was behind the trunk firing a rifle; is that correct?
A Yes.
Q Did the agents shoot at you?
A I don't know.
There were all kinds of bullets flying around all over.
Q Could you hear bullets coming by where you were?
A Yes.
Q Is it not true, Mr. Anderson, that about 11:30 that morning
you were in the tent city preparing the noon meal, or preparing to eat
the noon meal, when you first heard shots, and that you then grabbed your
gun and ran up to the hill, isn't that the truth?
A No. I don't know what time it was.
Q Well, what time, at any time that day, did you prepare
to eat the noon meal?
A We didn't have the noon meal.
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Q That was my question. What time were you preparing, where
at any time on that day did you prepare to eat the noon meal?
A In the camp.
Q Pardon?
A In the camp.
Q In the camp?
A Yeah.
Q And that's what I'm referring to as tent city, that's
what you call the camp?
A Yes.
Q So that is where you were preparing to eat the noon meal,
isn't it?
Q No. We didn't eat a noon meal.
Q Were you, you were getting ready to eat the noon meal
there, weren't you ?
A Yes.
Q Okay. Now, you described the first time you looked down
at the two cars, and you've just described what you say as one was standing
firing a rifle from behind the trunk and one was shooting a handgun, and
you don't know how many times they shot. Were you looking at them while
you saw this?
A Yes.
Q Did you see any puffs coming from their guns?
A No.
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Q Would you have been able to hear gunshots if you were
looking at them and they fired their weapons?
A Yes.
Q Do you know if they fired at all while you were looking
at them?
A No.
Q Well, then why did you say that one special agent was
shooting a pistol, or shooting a handgun?
A Well, they just kept on going like that (indicating).
Q Well, what do you think he was doing instead of shooting
A I don't know.
Q Was it, did it reasonably appear to you that he was shooting
a gun?
A Yes.
Q All right. After that did you turn away or move away
at some point to where you were no longer observing those cars?
A Yes.
Q What did you do at that point?
A I moved to the log cabin.
Q All right. You moved to the log cabin.
Now, let's, looking on here, referring to Government Exhibit
No. 71, the log cabin is this house right here (indicating); is it not?
A Yes.
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Q All right. How did you move, did you move along behind
the houses to go there?
A Yes.
Q All right. So if I can draw a green line here, is that
where you went?
A Yeah.
Q All right. And what did you do when you got over to the
log cabin?
A Sat there and started shooting towards the road.
Q Why were you shooting towards the road?
A Because there were cars trying to come in.
Q Did you know who they were?
A Yes.
Q Who did you think they were?
A The police.
Q And did you hit any of the cars, do you know?
A No, I don't know.
Q Has anyhody at any time, whether it's Special Agent Adams
or anybody else, suggested to you that you could be charged with attempted
murder for shooting at those cars?
A No.
Q Do you know that you could be?
A Yes.
Q Does that worry you a little bit?
A Yes.
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Q How long did you start shooting, or how many shots did
you fire at those cars would you estimate?
A I don't know.
Q Fifteen minutes, would you say?
A I don't know.
Q Was it more than that, or less than that do you think?
A I don't know. I didn't have a watch.
Q You have some idea about time. Was it a short period
of time or was it a real long period of time or you just don't know?
A I just don't know.
Q All right. Did something occur to make you move again
to another position, or back to where you were before?
A Yes.
Q What happened?
A Gunfire just started coming from the road all over.
Q Meaning heavier gunfire?
A Yes.
Q And what did you do then?
A I moved back to the white house.
Q And when you got back to the white house did you once
again see the cars down below?
A Yes.
Q And as I made notes you said that the second time you
saw the cars one of the special agents, one of the people down there {900}
that you saw, had no shirt on; is that correct?
A Yes.
Q And he was tying a bandage on the other person; is that
true?
A Yeah, I think so.
Q What made you think he was tying a bandage on?
A I don't know. The other guy got hit. I didn't see him
sitting up or anything.
Q Was he tying it on his leg, arm or head?
A I don't know.
Q Why would you say he was tying a bandage on if you can't
even tell what part of the body he was looking at?
A I don't know. I didn't know what he was trying to do.
Q Well, did you see him take his shirt off?
A No.
Q Did you see him holding his shirt in his hand?
A No.
Q Did you see the other agent with the shirt on him somewhere?
A No. I didn't see the other agent.
Q Well, can you tell this jury anything that you saw that
makes you now testify that you thought the one agent was tying a bandage
on the other?
A Well, I don't know, because I didn't see the other guy
sitting up or anything.
Q Isn't if a fact, Mr. Anderson, that the Government suggested
{901} something about a bandage to you?
A No.
Q You never heard that from the Government?
A No.
Q And you have nothing you can tell this jury that would
give them any idea why you would think there was bandaging going on?
A No. Just that I didn't see the other agent.
Q And you say one of the agents, one of the people that
you saw down there, was standing, but you don't know which one; is that
correct?
A Yes.
Q You don't even know whether it was the one with the shirt
on or the shirt off, is that true?
A The one with the shirt off, he was standing.
Q The one with the shirt off was standing?
A Yes.
Q Well, then you do know which one was standing, the one
with the shirt off was standing?
A Yes.
Q You couldn't see the other one at all, is that your testimony?
A No -- yes.
Q What was the agent who was standing without the shirt
on doing? Was he firing, aiming?
{902}
A I don't know.
Q Did you hear any gunshots?
A No.
Q Was he yelling or calling or just standing there, or
crouching or hiding? Can you tell anything of what you saw?
A I don't know. I didn't see him. He was hiding I think.
Q Now, wait a minute. I thought you just said you saw him
standing there with no shirt on.
A I saw him standing there with no shirt on.
Q Well, now was he standing or was he hiding?
A Standing.
Q I must have misunderstood what you said a moment ago.
I thought you said he was trying to hide. Take a minute. I mean I want
you to take the time that you need to give a proper answer.
What was he doing?
A He was standing behind the car. Standing behind the car?
A Yes.
Q Standing behind which car? What color?
A The one with the trunk open.
Q What color was that, do you remember?
A No.
Q Do you remember the trunk was open, but you don't remember
the color?
{903}
A Yes.
Q Special Agent Adams asked you about the car with the
trunk open?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q Possible he did?
A I don't remember.
Q Did you shoot down there at that time?
A No.
Q What did you do next? Did there come a time when you
turned away?
A I just stood around for a while because I was scared.
Q How long would you say you stood there and looked at
the agent while he was standing up there without a shirt on? Ten or fifteen
minutes, two or three minutes, half hour?
A Five minutes.
Q About five minutes?
A Yes.
Q And then what did you do?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q You don't remember?
A No.
Q What's the next thing you do remember?
A I don't know. I think I ran back down to the camp.
Q You think you ran back down to the camp?
A Yes.
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Q When you were testifying on direct examination my notes
indicate that you said that you kept running back and forth between the
white house and the log cabin. Was that true when you said it? Does that
jog your memory?
A Yes.
Q So after you saw the agent standing without the shirt
did you run back to the log cabin; is that your testimony?
A Yes.
Q Are you sure about that now, or are you just guessing?
A Yes, I'm sure.
Q You are sure?
A Yes.
Q All right. How long -- what happened when you got over
to the log cabin?
A I just started shooting out towards the Jumping Bull
Hall.
Q At people?
A No. At the hall.
Q Just at the hall?
A Yes.
Q Why would you shoot at Jumping Bull Hall?
A I don't know.
Q Was there anybody in Jumping Bull Hall?
A No.
Q Let me understand the first time you shot at the log
cabin you were shooting at people, and the second time you were {905} shooting
--
MR. HULTMAN: That's an incorrect statement of the record,
Your Honor. Again I object. He said he was shooting at cars. I think he
made it very clear. Not at people.
MR. LOWE: I'll clarify that.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Mr. Anderson, were those cars driving themselves
or were there people driving those cars?
A There were people driving them I guess.
Q And you were shooting at those people in the cars, weren't
you?
A No. At the cars.
Q Just at the cars. But you were being careful not to shoot
at the people, only the cars?
A Yes.
Q But at this time you were shooting at the house and there
was nobody in the house?
A Yes.
Q And you were careful before to shoot at the cars and
not at the two men in the lower meadow?
A Yes.
Q During this whole day you shot at only inanimate objects,
not people; is that your testimony?
A Yes.
Q Now, we've got this green line, and because I can't make
a whole lot of green lines there, what I'm going to do is I'm {906} going
to put one for the first trip and now we've got a second trip. That's two
I'll just put there. And on that occasion how long did you stay out there
and shoot from the log cabin would you say?
A I think about twenty minutes.
Q Pardon?
A I'm not sure.
Q Did you say thirty minutes?
A About twenty I think.
Q Twenty minutes.
Well, now could it have been more than twenty minutes?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q Okay. I'll take your twenty minutes, and let's talk about
that for a moment. During the twenty minutes, do you know about how many
times you shot?
A No.
Q All right. What happened? You indicated before you kept
running back and forth and I believe your next testimony was you went back.
I believe you indicated that you came back to the white car, white house,
and you said you first, you said you saw nobody in the tree line. Is that
correct, that you didn't see anybody in any tree line? That's what you
said the first time it was asked?
A In the tree line?
Q Yes.
{907}
A No.
Q It's not true?
A Which tree line?
Q Well, pick any tree line at all along -- point it out
here. As you are looking here there's a tree line that runs right along
here all the way down here and around the back. So as you are looking down
from the houses. Did you ever see anybody shooting from any of those tree
lines?
A No. I just seen Peltier down there.
Q By where the junked cars?
A Yes.
Q But you said that the third time you looked at the cars,
which is -- you are back now at the white house again I guess. You saw
nobody?
A No.
Q Is that correct?
A Yes.
Q You didn't see anybody down by the cars at all and then
I gather you went back over to the log cabin again, is that what happened?
A No. I went down to the camp.
Q You went down to the camp.
All right. Taking the pointer, will you point and indicate where
you went when you went back to the camp from the white house after the
third look at the cars.
{908}
A Ran back down this way, down here (indicating).
Q And went back into the tent area?
A Yes.
Q All right. I'll mark that here in purple. And we measured
that before to be about 1600 feet. And can you tell me about -- did you
run down there or walk down there or how did you go down?
A We walked down.
Q You walked down. How long does it take you to walk a
quarter of a mile, a third of a mile like that back to the tent area? How
long do you think it took you?
A I don't know.
Q Ten or fifteen minutes?
A I don't know.
Q What happened when you got back to the tent area? What
did you do then?
A I was told to load up the pickup. They have a van, a
red and white van.
Q Okay. Mr. Peltier was in the tent area, wasn't he?
A Yes.
Q And you then described in your direct testimony a fourth
time that you looked at the FBI cars; and did you run back up from the
tent area, or walk back up from the tent area again to the white house
for that fourth look?
A No.
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Q How did you get back up there?
A I don't remember that.
Q You don't remember that?
A No.
THE COURT: Court is in recess until 3:25.
MR. LOWE: All right, sir.
(Recess taken.)
{910}
THE COURT: Bring the jury in.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had in the courtroom
in the hearing and presence of the jury:)
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Mr. Anderson, you have identified a number
of people by name who you saw were in the area and who were involved on
this particular day and you've identified them by name. I show you Defense
Exibit 79A which are some pictures and I show you on page 3, photograph
No. 3 and I ask you if you know who that is and if so will you state who
it is?
A No.
Q I call your attention to the second row from the rear
back there and there is a man sitting in the middle of that row. I ask
you if that is the Dino Butler you referred to being in the encampment
area on the 26th of June?
A Yes.
Q Is the woman sitting on his right Nilak Butler, the Nilak
you spoke of?
A Yes.
Q Is the next young woman Jeannie Bordeau, the woman you
referred to?
A Yes.
Q Now at the beginning of the recess or when we recessed,
we were talking about your various trips back and forth between the white
house and the log cabin and we had talked about, just to refresh where
we are because I don't want to confuse you as {911} to where we were, on
the first occasion you said you saw the FBI car, someone was standing behind
the trunk and someone was shooting with the handgun. The second look you
said you saw someone standing with no shirt on and you did not see the
other one. Then you said you kept running back and forth, you said, on
the third trip, I think we were talking at that point about the third trip
and I will refresh your recollection. Going back a couple of questions
just before the break to try to keep the continuity here, that I had pointed
out to you that you were asked about seeing anybody in the tree line and
in response to my question you said that you saw Mr. Peltier in the tree
line at a point I believe Mr. Hultman marked as "P1" on Government Exhibit
71 and I think it was just about that point that we took our recess. What
I was getting to and I want to get to now is that when you were asked these
questions this morning, the questioning that went about the tree line,
and you indicated that you saw Mr. Peltier at the tree line and you said,
Mr. Hultman said, "And what was he doing?" And you answered, "I don't know";
the question: "Did you see him at any other place?" Answer:
"No." Then Mr. Hultman said, "I'm going to mark the map," and then he went
up and marked the exhibit, and then he said, "Now when is the next time
that you looked down to where the agents' cars were? What did you see the
next time you looked down to the agents' cars?" And your response was,
"Nobody," and he asked you, "Was anything going on at that time?" And you
{912} said "No."
Now is that your recollection so far?
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, I would object at this time on
the grounds that the record, as I clearly understand it from this morning,
was that on the third occasion in looking down that there was a specific
reference to people seen and on the fourth look down there was none. That's
as I clearly understand the record.
MR. LOWE: Which stands for the proposition that's why we
should have court reporters in the courtroom instead of Counsel remembering.
I'm reading from a transcript this morning and that's exactly what the
court reporter took down. I haven't finished it, if Mr. Hultman will allow
I'll continue my questioning and go through the rest of it also. May I?
THE COURT: Proceed.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Do you remember the question that is before
you, do you remember when Mr. Hultman said, "What did you see at the next
time you looked down to the agents' cars?" And you answered anybody, excuse
me, "Nobody," and then the question was, "Anything going on at that time?"
And your answer was, "No." Do you remember that much?
A Yes.
Q And that was, am I correct in the way your answers were
there that that was what you were observing at the time you saw Mr. Peltier
in the tree line, that nothing was going on at the {913} agents' cars,
is that correct?
A I don't get the question.
Q When you saw Mr. Peltier at point "P1" you told us about
that, is that when it was that you observed nothing was going on at the
agents' cars right at that point?
A No. That was the second time.
Q You say that was the second time.
If I understand correctly, the second time you told us you saw
the agent standing there with no shirt on so this must have been the third
time, am I correct? The first time you were shooting over the trunk, second
time he was standing there with no shirt on, the third time you said there
was nothing going on and you didn't see anybody. Am I correct about that?
A Yes.
Q Now then Mr. Hultman asked you, "Did you see any individuals
down at the agents' cars at any time?" And then you said, "Yes." And am
I correct in presuming that this was a fourth time you were referring to
and you described seeing, Butler, Robideau and Peltier?
A Yes.
Q Peltier couldn't be up at the tree line and down at the
cars at the same time, could he?
A No.
Q Between the third time when you saw Peltier in the tree
{914} line and saw nothing happening down at the FBI cars, between that
time and the time that you saw the three men down at the FBI cars, where
had you gone or what were you doing in between those two time periods?
Had you gone back to the log cabin?
A Yes. I think so.
Q Do you know on that occasion about how long you stayed
back at the log cabin?
A No.
Q Do you know at the time that you were observing Mr. Peltier
at the tree line and observing that nothing was happening and you couldn't
see anybody down at the FBI cars how long were you there at that time?
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, might I have an opportunity to
voir dire just on one question and that is --
MR. LOWE: Judge, I object to this. I ask we have a side
bar. I don't want any signals to this witness.
MR. HULTMAN: I think Counsel is misleading the witness.
MR. LOWE: There is a proper time for that on redirect.
I don't want this witness to get any signals from --
THE COURT: Counsel approach the bench.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had at the bench:)
THE COURT: I have given defendant unlimited voir dire on
examinations from when a witness is under examination. I don't quite understand
your objection to any voir dire at all. {915} I'm trying not to interfere
with the way you want to present your case but on the other hand --
MR. LOWE: Judge, my understanding of voir dire is normally
used to inquire about the basis for introducing an exhibit. That's when
we used it primarily with pictures and things of that nature. I'm not --
THE COURT: Normal use of voir dire is for purposes of
laying the foundation for an objection to the question.
MR. HULTMAN: That's correct, Your Honor.
MR. LOWE: None of these questions are objectionable. What
Mr. Hultman is trying to do is redirect.
THE COURT: This is why I've called you to the bench. What
is the voir dire?
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, I would like to lay the foundation
--
MR. LOWE: Be quiet. I don't want the witness to hear. The
witness is listening.
MR. HULTMAN: I think it's very clear the witness referred
on direct testimony to four specific times and he did not match them up
as Counsel is now in examination matching them up. All I would like to
do for the purpose of preparing for an objection is to find and indicate
from the witness as to what was the simple sequence of the four and that
is the part Counsel very carefully left out the third one in his examination
which this morning's total record indicates his {916} third observance
is when the three people are at the car and that's the basis for my questioning
on voir dire.
MR. LOWE: That's redirect, Judge.
THE COURT: That can be brought out on redirect.
MR. HULTMAN: All right.
THE COURT: As long as you're here, though, I will say and
I will advise Counsel on both sides, I do object to Counsel in asking a
question asserting, making an assertion that is not supported by evidence
in the case. For example, Mr. Lowe, at the beginning of your examination
you made some comment about were you there when Leonard Peltier said thus
and so. There is no evidence, probably will never be evidence as to what
Mr. Leonard Peltier said.
MR. LOWE: This witness said that. In our creating that
question, I got this out of the FBI 302 that attributed that statement
to the witness. That's why I asked it.
THE COURT: But it was not stated on direct examination
and it is not evidence in the case until it's brought out.
Anyhow, I just cite that as an example. I did not do anything
about it.
MR. LOWE: We'll try and rephrase it in a different form.
THE COURT: All I'm saying is Counsel should not make an
assertion not supported by the evidence. In other words, present matters
which might be needed by the jury as statements {917} of evidence if they're
not supported by the record.
MR. LOWE: Very well.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had in the courtroom
in the hearing and presence of the jury:)
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I believe where we left off, Mr. Anderson,
you had just been at the white house and had observed Mr. Peltier in the
tree line and observed no activity at the cars, had gone back to the log
house and now, as I understand from the question I was referring to, you
indicated there was a fourth occasion when you did see Butler, Robideau
and Peltier. I'll ask you where were you located when you made that citing?
A At the white house.
Q At the white house again.
Now I want to be sure, some question has been raised, I want
to be sure that I understand, that I have not misstated these trips. That
so far we have talked about four specific times that you looked down and
saw the cars. The first time, going in order now, the first time you saw
a man firing standing behind the trunk of one weapon, one car, and the
other man was shooting a handgun. That was the first time in sequence.
The second time you observed one of the agents with no shirt on and for
reasons that you concluded that he was trying to tie on a bandage or do
something and you don't know where the other agent was on that one. That
was the second time.
MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, I would object at this time {918}
because again Counsel's attempting to do the same thing. I would suggest
and I would have no objection if Counsel would ask, that's why I asked
the opportunity to voir dire, if he would just ask the witness to tell
the sequence of the four events and I would have no objection of any kind.
MR. LOWE: I'm on cross-examination. This is perfectly cross-examination.
I'm trying in a very fair way to corroborate what this witness has said
and make sure there is no confusion in his mind or the Court's mind and
I think I'm entitled to phrase my questions my way as long as they are
proper.
THE COURT: Proceed.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) That was the second time. The third time
was when you saw Leonard Peltier in the tree line and looked down and saw
no activity at the cars, nor did you see anybody at the cars and that was
the third time. Then the fourth time you saw Peltier, Butler and Robideau
down at the cars and those are the only four times that's talked about
so far. Did I correctly summarize those four times?
A I can't remember that now. I think it was the third time
I saw the three standing down there by the car.
Q Was that before or after you saw Mr. Peltier in the wood
line?
A Before.
Q It was before you saw him in the wood line?
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A Yes.
Q What did you do when you saw the three of them down at
the cars, where did you go from there?
A Back to the white house. Went to the cabin.
Q You went back to the cabin again?
A Yes.
Q I thought you went back to the tent area. You didn't
go back to the tent area?
A Confused.
Yes. I went back down to the tent area.
Q This is after you saw then down at the cars?
A Yes.
Q So after you saw them down at the cars you went to the
tent area. Do you know what they did down at the cars after you left to
go to the tent area?
A No.
Q Did you go directly from the white house to the tent
area at that time when you saw them down by the cars?
A Yes.
Q Mr. Anderson, if you left the white house while you saw
them down at the cars and went directly to the tent area, will you tell
the jury how you could thereafter see Mr. Peltier in the tree line?
A I think that was there the second time.
Q That was the second time?
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A Yes.
Q Now the second time you told us you saw one of the agents
with no shirt on and he was bandaging somebody. That wasn't the time you
saw Mr. Peltier in the tree line, was it?
A I don't know. I can't remember.
Q Just a moment ago when I gave you the sequence and you
said, no, you thought I was wrong, that the third time is when you saw
the three men down at the cars and you said you saw Mr. Peltier in the
tree line after that. How could you have seen Mr. Peltier in the tree line
after that if he went back to the tent area?
A I don't know.
Q I don't either.
When you arrived in the tent area, I thought you told us that
Mr. Peltier was there and he told you to load the red and white van.
A Yes, he was.
Q Now will you tell the jury if you were at the white house
and saw the three men at the two cars down there and you went directly
to the tent area, will you tell the jury how Mr. Peltier could be at the
tent area when you got there if you had left him at the three cars?
A I don't know. But that red and white pickup was there.
I don't know how that got there.
Q Where did you see the red and white pickup back there
at {921} the tent area?
A Parked in the tree line.
Q Parked in the tree line?
A Yes. Yes. By the camp.
Q Excuse me a moment.
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(Counsel confer.)
MR. LOWE: Do you have the Government Exhibit 12 or does
the Court have that?
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I show you Government Exhibit 12, and ask
you if you can state for the record what that is?
A It is a red and white van. Tell the jury what is the
difference between a red and white pickup and a red and white van, where
you saw those two different vehicles.
MR. HULTMAN: Well, I object, your Honor, there is nothing
in this record that indicates that he saw two different vehicles. The record
is very clear that there was one vehicle.
MR. LOWE: As much as Hultman might not like it, he has
talked about a van and a pickup. Everybody on the jury knows there is a
difference between a van and a pickup. It is apparent to the naked eye.
I think it is proper to ask him about those two different vehicles.
A That's what I meant, the van.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Do you know what a pickup is?
A Yes.
Q Does that look like a pickup to you?
A No.
Q Why do you call it a pickup?
A I don't know.
Q Did the Government suggest to you that a red and white
{923} pickup was involved in this case?
A No.
Q Why would you call it a pickup?
A I don't know. That's what I called it before.
Q You meant the red and white van instead of the pickup?
A Yes.
Q When you got back, you have no explanation how Mr. Peltier
could get from the FBI cars down there, as you go down the road to the
tent area and when you arrive in the tent area, he is there ahead of you?
A Yes.
Q Now, during the time you were running back and forth
from the white house to the cabin, the log cabin, you said you kept running
back and forth. Was there any shooting going on during that time?
A Yes.
Q Where was the shooting taking place?
A Coming from the river.
Q Is that the only place you heard shooting during that
time?
A And going towards the road.
Q Shooting towards the road?
A Yes.
Q That's the only two places you heard any shooting?
A Yes.
Q And is that true until you got back to the tent area?
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A Yes.
Q O.k. Now, just to be sure we are clear here, I marked
that little green area, and at one point I marked "1 and 2". I am going
to take that off now because there just wasn't two spaces I wanted to show
you. I was doing that in case we used this slide again.
When you got back to the Tent City, were there any women there?
A Yes.
Q They were already there when you got there?
A Yes.
Q And who were the women that were there when you got back
there?
A Jeannie and Lynn.
Q And when you observed Mr. Peltier, Mr. Butler and Mr.
Robideau down by the two cars, were they the only people down there that
you saw, no women, for example?
A No.
Q Do you know approximately what time you got back to the
tent area?
A No.
Q You don't know from anybody else making any comments
or anything like that?
A No.
Q Do you know how long it was from the time you got back
to {925} the tent area until the time you all actually went down into the
creekbed and started to leave?
A No.
Q You wouldn't even have an estimate on that?
A Unh-unh.
(Counsel confer.)
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Now, during the time that you all were
exiting this area in your group -- and you were, I believe you said, you
went down the creekbed and went under a conduit and through some woods
on a hill, and then you described being on the move at various times and
in various groups for three or four days -- during this period of time
did different people take turns carrying different weapons and other things
that you were carrying?
A Yes.
Q O.k. Do you have any way of knowing whether -- who ended
up with what weapons, or you just know from time to time who you saw with
different weapons?
A I just know from time to time.
Q O.k. To your knowledge there was some shifting of weapons
back and forth though?
A Yes.
MR. LOWE: Excuse me.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I show you Government Exhibit 37-A for
identification, and I ask you if you have ever seen that weapon {926}
A Yes.
Q Was that one of the weapons carried out by somebody in
the group you went with when you left the creekbed and went out the way
you have described?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q You don't remember?
A No.
Q Now, you described this car episode in Kansas. Mr. Peltier
was not in that car, was he?
A No.
Q Now, during the march-out in the four or five days, three
or four days, whatever it was you were all on the road, was there conversation
about the fact that -- anything about what the FBI would do if they caught
up with the group?
A I don't know.
Q You don't know whether there was or not?
A No.
Q In all of the time that you were up on the hill area
around the house or the log house, the white house or the log house, in
all that time shooting, can you tell about how many shots were fired from
your weapon?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q Was it more than 10?
A Yes.
Q More than a hundred?
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A No.
Q Somewhere in between?
A Yes.
Q Did your weapon have a telescopic sight on it?
A Yes.
Q Pardon?
A Yes.
Q Were you able to use the telescopic sight when you fired
the weapon?
A No.
Q Did you keep the scope on the weapon the whole time?
A No.
Q What happened?
A I took it off.
Q What did you do with it, do you know?
A No.
Q From the time you first ran from Tent City up to the
white house, that is, after you came all the way around and you described
hearing some shots, and then you grabbed a rifle and ran up, from that
time until the time you finally got back to Tent City and they were loading
the red van, how many times in that period did you go back and forth between
Tent City and the white house?
A I don't know. I don't remember.
Q Do you remember whether you did at all?
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A Yeah.
Q What is your remembrance?
A I remember that I kept on going back and forth between
the white house and the log cabin.
Q O.k. How about between rrent City and the white house
though?
A No.
Q "No" meaning you didn't go back and forth?
A I did.
Q You did?
A Yes.
Q How many times?
A About three times.
Q All right. Now, you have described to us the shooting
from the white house and running back and forth to the log cabin, with
these three or four different times that you observed the FBI cars. How
do these three trips back and forth to Tent City fit in there, when did
they take place?
A I don't remember.
Q Did they take place between some of the sightings of
the FBI car?
A Yes. I think some of them -- I am not sure though.
Q With all this activity from the time you got up to the
white house the first time -- you have described these various times that
you were there -- and the log cabin, and now you {929} tell us there were
some occasions when you were back into Tent City during that time, up until
the time you finally saw Mr. Peltier and Mr. Robideau and Mr. Butler, would
you say that the time that elapsed from when you were sitting on the roof
of the house was more or less than an hour?
MR. HULIMAN: Well, I object, your Honor, to this. I have
no objection to asking if the witness knows, but he has been asked the
questions about -- at least a half dozen times, and he has indicated that
he had no watch.
MR. LOWE: I am asking for an estimate. The witness has
handled that question well before. If he says he doesn't know, why, all
right.
THE COURT: You may answer.
A I don't remember.
Q (By Mr. Lowe) Because it may be quite important at some
point, particularly with other witnesses, will you take the pointer please
and turn around and one more time, as closely as you can with the red tip
of the pointer, outline the route that you took from the white house back
to the tent area on the last time that you went back there?
A (Indicating) Down this way, around down this way (indicating),
around this way (indicating), and across up here (indicating).
Q So you generally followed the road to where it says "Special
Agent Williams' car", where it is written there and {930} not the symbo],
and you cut over to the tent area?
A Yes.
Q Were you running while you did that?
A No.
Q Walking?
Q Yes.
Q Walking fairly fast?
A Yes.
MR. LOWE: May I just have a moment, your Honor? I am very
close to finished.
(Counsel confer.)
Q (By Mr. Lowe) I understand from your answer, Mr. Anderson,
that because you had no watch or other time refereces you are unable with
any certainty at all to give us any time references other than the ones
you have already testified to, that is, you have no way of saying where
you were at any particular time, like 4:00 o'clock, 1:00 o'clock, or 7:00
o'clock, but only can testify as you have already, am I correct in that?
A Yes.
Q The finally area I want to make brief
inquiry, you gave me an initial answer to this but I wanted to get some
more detail. I believe you told me that you believe the religion of the
pipe, is that correct?
A Yes.
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Q And this is the -- do you believe in the ancient Indian
ways and religions?
A Yes.
Q And do you practice the traditional Indian religion?
A No, not very much.
Q Not very much, but you believe in it?
A Yes.
Q I call your attention to this object which is on the
defense table, and ask you if you know what it is?
A Yes.
Q What is it?
A Pipe.
Q Is that the sacred pipe?
A Yes.
#Q And you told me when you -- well, let me ask you this
way: When I told you this morning we were going to be talking with
you and you were asked whether you would take your oath on the pipe, weren't
you?
A Yes.
Q You didn't do that, did you?
A No.
MR. LOWE: I believe that's all I have, your Honor.
(Counsel confer.)
MR. HULTMAN: I have no further questions, your Honor.
THE COURT: You may step down.
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(Witness excused.)