did you steal divert the fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got, but it came from you know, i battled addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. when did you first become dependent or addicted opiods? oxycodone or opiods in general? opiods in general. i m not sure of the exact date. i can give you a timeframe. i hurt my knee really bad playing football in college. i had a knee surgery. the medical science at the time was such that the surgery didn t work, bottom line. it just didn t last. within a couple years of that i started having a lot of knee troubles. ultimately i had to have a couple of surgeries, but the last surgery i ha
lead lawyer of 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 for trial? in a criminal case, we didn t do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? yes, sir. presenting evidence in court? yes, sir. giving jury arguments? i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, either pled out or were dismissed for some reason? you know, i m sure that at some point over between 1998 and 2021 that i took some plea, but as we sit here today i can t specifically remember that, and i don t ever remember working a case up for trial that didn t go to trial, but i m sure at some point in time i was involved in some level of a guilty plea or guilty pleas. you would agree with me that t
i was never a solicitor. that s what that says. i ve never been a deputy solicitor. unless i was a volunteer assistant solicitor. as far as i know, sean thornton has been the only deputy solicitor that duffy stone had. it s a simple point. it set deputy solicitor but that s a higher rank than assistant solicitor. is that your understand something. that s what i think. i have never been deputy solicitor. even though that says that. i agree with you. that was signed by duffy stone, not by me. i understand. this is what was given to you. that s what i was given to me. we went through this about whether or not you had an association with the law enforcement community and given to you not by your father but a successor, correct? we got to this because you asked me if i took an oath. i don t remember talking an
recall it. it was an informal process when i became a volunteer assistant solicitor for my dad. when i continued with duffy, at some point you know, if i took any oath at all that i can remember, it would be on some paper that i may have had to sign, but i don t specifically remember doing that. all right. let s talk about it. let s go back to 571. on the inside of it what are those right there? is that an i.d. card with your picture on it? yes, sir, that is. at the top, leave it there if you would please. can you not see it? i can. i was going to see what s on the back. all right, sir. it s got your picture on it, your name on it? yes, sir. that does have my picture and my
pulled over? i mean, that s probably a fair statement. yeah, if somebody in law enforcement saw that, yeah, i d say that s true. did you have to take an oath when you got that badge? no, sir. you didn t? not that i remember. i certainly don t recall taking one like going somewhere and raising my hand raising your hand and say i promise to do my duty fairly with integrity? you never had to do that? mr. waters, if i did, i sure don t recall it. it was a very informal process when i became volunteer assistant solicitor for my dad. then when i continued with duffy. at some point, you know if i took any oath at all that i can