Basic summary:
Cross examination of Jay by CG:
p. 41-48
Jay spoke to police with tape recorder running for 2 hours on top of another 2 hours, 20 minutes (before the recording started); answered a lot of questions. Jay asked to turn off recorder. Jay did not tell everything and told some lies. Police told Jay that his information contained inconsistencies. Jay then spoke to officers with the recorder of about some of the inconsistencies.
Jay denies that he repeated “off the record” statements from the earlier unrecorded interview. “ The subject matter was not the same.” Jay was only questioned in the first unrecorded interview about the event of January 13th. When the recorder was turned off later, the matters discussed were not connected to January 13th, or the murder of HML, or what Jay had told Jenn. When Jay was brought to the police station, he was not under investigation for the murder (? Record shows “inaudible”). Jenn is the only person who mentioned his name.
Jenn called Jay on Feb. 27th and told him she had talked to the police and his name came up. Jay knew that Jenn had given them some information about the events of the 13th.
Q. when you asked the police to turn of the recorder, what was the subject of the conversation.
A. Acquiring a lawyer
The police did not give any information about getting a lawyer.
p. 137 -144
Jay didn’t want to get “Cathy” (CV) involved in the case. Was concerned because of her dad’s profession. Jay lied by omission about interactions with Cathy on the 13th.
Spoke to police again on April 13th. Was not in jail between March 15th and April 13th; never charged. Didn’t get a lawyer and didn’t ask police again about how to get a lawyer. Told police that he had gone to CVs twice at 2 different times. Also previously lied by omission by not mentioning CV’s boyfriend, Jeff J, who had been present on the 13th.
After April, Jay talked to police on September 7, the day he signed plea agreement. Don’t recall any police contact between April and September.
Before testifying in court, Jay prepared with Urick & Murphy. Did not speak about details of testimony.
Q. the details – is that the important stuff or the non important stuff?
A. That’s in the eye of the beholder.
Spoke to Urick three times before coming to court. Every time was after Jay already entered plea agreement. The subject of Jay’s previous lies was discussed with Urick and Murphy on all three occasions.
Shifts to discussion of the clothes Jay wore on January 13th.