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MR. JACKSON: Good morning, Your Honor. This is the Wesley
Cook case.
Mr. Cook, Your Honor, was shot and injured on December
9th, at or about the time of his arrest. He is now in the Giuffre Medical
Center.
MR. JACKSON: Oh, no, sir. We have not had a Municipal
Court hearing; in fact, it's been continued until January 14th.
I would like to have my client photographed, Your Honor.
A number of injuries that he sustained are not necessarily relevant to the
gunshot wound. I spoke to Mr. Murray --
MR. JACKSON: Yes, Your Honor, some other injuries
unrelated to the gunshot wound. I mean, there's a gunshot wound and
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THE COURT: Let's assume he was severely beaten and acting
in self-defense.
MR. JACKSON: Your Honor, there are injuries to his head,
back, to his stomach, to his legs. The gunshot wound was in the chest. And
we want to take photographs of those injuries, the injuries other than the
gunshot wound.
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MR. JACKSON: Some of them have required stitches, Your
Honor.
THE COURT: Lacerations?
MR. JACKSON: Yes, sir, across the head. I think there
were about eight stitches required to close a wound in the head, one of
the wounds in the head. And there are some other injuries around and about
his body. And the Commonwealth indicates they have no objection to --
MR. McGILL: That's true, Your Honor, the Commonwealth has
no objection.
THE COURT: These are injuries allegedly sustained after
the shooting, or before?
MR. JACKSON: Certainly not before, Your Honor.
THE COURT: Then they would be totally irrelevant to the
shooting incident.
MR. JACKSON: They may have happened at the same time.
THE COURT: They may be relevant in some other proceeding,
but if they happened after the bullets were exchanged they
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would be totally irrelevant to --
MR. JACKSON: Well, I am simply saying that they didn't
happen before the shooting. Whether they happened simultaneously,
contemporaneously, I don't know. I'm not in a position to say at this
point, Your Honor, when they occurred. But because of that, sir, and
because they do exist, I would want to preserve, by photograph, those
injuries, because I just don't know --
THE COURT: All right. Who is going to take the
photographs?
MR. JACKSON: Your Honor, his name is in the record
here.
THE COURT: Pardon me?
MR. JACKSON: His name is in the record.
THE COURT: All right.
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I hereby certify that the proceedings and evidence are
contained fully and accurately in the notes taken by me on the trial of
the above cause, and that this copy is a correct transcript of the
same.
Official Stenographer
The foregoing record of the proceedings upon the trial of
the above cause is hereby approved and directed to be filed.
Judge