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done, fine, send her folders out, that’s that. As we both
know, we weren’t done.

Q.
Well, I take it that the autopsy results or
Dr. Wood’s findings changed everything, and that’s what got
the investigation ref ired up?

A.
I don’t know. It seemed like when
Sergeant Andrews came on the Base, that he and Bob
achieved ——

Q.
Bob?
• A. Bob Johnson.
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achieved a real lack of understanding with each
other and that spurred things along. And then Joan Wood’s
autopsy findings just added fuel to the flames.

Q.
Is that when you decided you better come to
Clearwater?

A.
It was when ‘—- combination of that and the -- the
press onslaught we were under in the middle of December. It
was obvious to me that things just weren’t being dealt with
‘that —— you know, I like Bob, he’s a competent lawyer in
what he does, but this seemed to be over his head. It was
time to get some serious lawyers on it’and actually make
sure that this thing is dealt with properly.

Q.
Okay. So sometime along in that period in
December of ‘96 is when you came here and facilitated the
new lawyers? ‘ ‘

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