assistant solicitor when i moved from beaufort to hampton. so that would have been september sometime around september 1998. might have been a little bit after that. did you get a badge when you became an assistant solicitor? at some point i did, yes, sir. who gave you that badge? my father. mr. randolph? yes, sir. and over the years, did you prosecute criminal cases, much like what s going on here today? yes, sir, at times i did. i believe i prosecuted from 1998 to 2001 what? from 1998 to 2021 i believe i was involved in five jury i believe there were five trials, is the best that i can remember,
myself law enforcement. you carried a badge on you as an assistant solicitor for two decades roughly? from around 98 yes, sir. two decades. you would ride with it sometimes sitting in the front dash facing out, correct? that s correct. and you would put it in the cup holder so that law enforcement would see you if you got pulled over, right? that s correct. okay. so but you didn t consider yourself law enforcement? i personally didn t consider myself law enforcement. so you were using this badge as advantage and taking license with it, correct? in some circumstances that is accurate. see if you can use it to get away with something, correct? get better treatment if you got pulled over? get better treatment if i got
where one of us in the law firm and certainly we all had a lot of friends in law enforcement. they were always invited. okay. and it s a simple point. you had a lot of friends in law enforcement. your family and you had a long association with the law enforcement community in this circuit. is that correct? association being friendships and working relationships, absolutely. okay. let s talk about being a prosecutor. when did you become an assistant solicitor? i believe i became an assistant solicitor when i moved from beaufort to hampton. that would have been september sometime around september 1998. might have been a little after that. did you get a badge when you became an assistant solicitor? at some point i did, yes, sir. who gave you that badge? my father. mr. randolph?
buford and jasper counties. signed by duffy stone. so the deputy solicitor, is that correct? i was never a deputy solicitor, mr. waters. that s what that says, but i ve never been a dep si solicitor. i was a volunteer assistant solicitor. as far as i know shaun thornton has been the only deputy solicitor duffy had. deputy solicitor is a higher rank than assistant solicitor, to your understanding? that s what i think. that was shaun thornton. i ve never been deputy solicitor even though it says that. that was signed by duffy stone, not by me. i understand. this is what was given to you. we went through this whole long thing at the beginning about whether you have an association
sure. five jury trials over all that time. you had a badge that entire time, is that correct? i had a badge for that time, yes, sir. you had two badges, right? i had one badge. when my dad became the solicitor, he had an assistant solicitor s badge. when he passed away, i had his badge and that was one at some point in time you were asking somebody about two badges. that was the other badge. i got you. you said you did five criminal jury trials as a prosecutor, correct? assisted in those or was doing them, yes, sir. i believe i was the lead lawyer in one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. still a part of preparing the case? yes, sir. still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together