Q: How did you come to be there?
A: We were invited. I used to play basketball in a league in the neighborhood with Sebe. Neither of us play anymore, but I know some of the guys, Kerry and them.
Q: Who did you attend the party with?
A: My wife, Tara Pankin.
Q: Were you aware that there were sexual activities going on at the party that night?
A: Not that night specifically. But we’ve been to that party before. I’d heard about that kind of thing previously.
Q: Did you participate in those activities?
A: No.
Q: Why not?
A: Why not? Because my wife would fucking kill—sorry, excuse me. Poor choice of words. I know some marriages … I know that people do that kind of thing and it works out fine. They even manage to keep it all a secret. Who ends up with who at that party nevergets out. To each his own and all that. But it wouldn’twork for us. I’d kill my wife, too, by the way.
Q: I see.
A: Shit. I’m sorry. I don’t know why I keep saying kill. This whole thing is just … Anyway, no, we didn’t have sex with each other or anybody else at the party. We did drink too much sangria. For half the nightI was wearing a jester’s hat I found on the floor, ifthat tells you anything.
Q: Do you have a clear memory of that night?
A: I do. I remember everything that happened. I’m notlike an alcoholic or something. I had three glasses ofsangria. That’s it.
Q: Did you know Amanda Grayson?
A: No.
Q: Did you see a woman exit abruptly out the back of the party that night?
A: I did.
Q: Can you describe what happened?
A: She came down the stairs and was trying to leaveout the front, but it was too crowded. She looked upsetand in a hurry, so I told her to go out the back. I warned her that we weren’t really supposed to do that. One year, Sebe’sneighbor called the cops.
Q: What time was that?
A: 9:47 p.m.
Q: How do you know so precisely?
A: Because somebody had just asked me what time it was.
Q: I would like to show you a photograph.
(Counsel approaches witness with photograph, which was previously marked as People’s Exhibit 6.)
Q: Is that the woman you pointed the exit out to?
A: Yes.
Q: Let the record reflect that Exhibit 6 is a photograph of Amanda Grayson. Shortly before you pointedthat woman out toward the back door, did you have aninteraction with a man?
(Counsel approaches witness with photograph, which was previously marked as People’s Exhibit 5.)
