Gina Crawford — Direct - Day 53 - 2015 Federal Trial

The defense sought life imprisonment in its opening and presented testimony about Tamerlan's behavior, family relationships, and digital records. Cross-examination explored witnesses' limited knowledge of Dzhokhar and the brothers' relationship.

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Russell Proffer and Crawford Testimony Preview

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(Discussion at sidebar and out of the hearing of the jury:)

MS. CLARKE: Judge, before we get too far away from Ms. Russell, I just want to make a showing as to what I was trying to inquire about. During the week, between the Monday and the Friday, at some point Ms. Russell thought for a moment that it could have been Tamerlan that bombed the Boston Marathon, and the reason she thought that was because he had become intensely radical in his views of Islam and politics, and she was aware that the FBI had interviewed him at some point.

So she had these immediate concerns, and then she pushed them out of her head because she thought how horrible could it be that she could have that thought about him, her own son-in-law. So that was the extent of the testimony that I was trying to elicit --

THE COURT: Okay.

MS. CLARKE: -- 16 weeks to Sunday.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: While we're here, I'd like to know whether -- concerning Ms. Crawford, whether there's going to be testimony about domestic violence or whether it will be a variety of statements that are hearsay.

MS. CLARKE: I believe she heard about it from -- I think she heard about it from Katherine.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: I'm not sure --

MR. WEINREB: Katherine never --

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: No, she never admitted it.

MR. WEINREB: Katherine insisted there was never any domestic violence, so she didn't hear it from her.

MS. CLARKE: It wasn't something I was going to ask her about, but it's a good idea. She knew the roommates and would refer to that, but I don't think I'm going to get into it.

THE COURT: Any issue with exhibits that you might have?

MS. CLARKE: I don't think so. There's --

THE COURT: The list says there's photographs.

MS. CLARKE: There's photographs.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: With regard to some of the texts, the texts were taken by -- written down by an FBI agent during the course of the interview, and the last few --

MS. CLARKE: Here's what I've got, Judge. This series of texts were on the 15th of April, and then the last two texts were on the -- I think when Tamerlan was --

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: After he was discovered, but that's not clear from the body of the --

MS. CLARKE: But I think she'll do it.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Oh, she will?

MS. CLARKE: Yeah. And that's how I expect to show it.

THE COURT: Okay.

ProceduralProc.Return to Open Court Before Crawford's Testimony

(In open court:)

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GINA CRAWFORD, duly sworn

COURT CLERK: State your name, spell your last name for the record, keep your voice up and speak into the mic.

GINA CRAWFORD: Okay. Gina Crawford, G-I-N-A C-R-A-W-F-0-R-D.

DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MS. CLARKE:

MS. CLARKE: Good afternoon.

GINA CRAWFORD: Hi.

MS. CLARKE: I'm over here.

Ms. Crawford, can you tell the jury where you live? Not your address but the state.

GINA CRAWFORD: I live in Rhode Island.

MS. CLARKE: And are you employed?

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