Jurors in the Diane Downs trial view crime scene; witnesses testify │ 14 May 1984 — Transcript

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1. 0:02elizabeth diane downs and the jury who
2. 0:04will decide her fate went outside the
3. 0:05courtroom today media from around the
4. 0:07state were given strict instructions not
5. 0:09to photograph jurors faces to protect
6. 0:11their anonymity down sat in the back of
7. 0:13the bus as jurors were taken to four
8. 0:15sites to see evidence in the murder case
9. 0:17their first stop was the county lot
10. 0:18where down's 1983 datsun pulsar has been
11. 0:21kept since the shootings downs says the
12. 0:23children were shot while they were
13. 0:24asleep inside the car the passenger side
14. 0:27rock panel has been removed that's where
15. 0:29the crime lab found spatters of cheryl
16. 0:30down's blood a contradiction in down's
17. 0:32account of the shooting
18. 0:34on the way back to the scene of the
19. 0:35crime the jurors were taken by downe's
20. 0:37apartment in the friend's house she
21. 0:38visited before the murder at milepost
22. 0:402.8 on old mohawk road jurors got out of
23. 0:43the bus and were told where police found
24. 0:4522-caliber gun casings in the roadway
25. 0:48the state says marks on those casings
26. 0:50match marks found in the casings in her
27. 0:5222-caliber rifle white lines were drawn
28. 0:54on the pavement to prevent the media
29. 0:56from interfering after a five-minute
30. 0:58stopover the jurors were taken by
31. 0:59mckinsey willamette hospital before
32. 1:01court got going this afternoon
33. 1:03the friend that downes visited the night
34. 1:05of the murder was the first witness
35. 1:06today heather pluer testified that when
36. 1:08she visited downs in the hospital after
37. 1:10the shooting diane said i'm afraid
38. 1:12christy might blame me for this because
39. 1:14i'm the first person she saw after being
40. 1:16shot
41. 1:17joseph inman says he was driving 60
42. 1:19miles an hour on old mohawk road may
43. 1:2119th at 10 15 when he came up behind
44. 1:23down's red car the red pulsar was moving
45. 1:26less than 10 miles per hour and inman
46. 1:28couldn't see anyone inside
47. 1:30the state says there's a 25-minute time
48. 1:32gap after the kids were shot and when
49. 1:34they arrived at the hospital
50. 1:35prosecutor fred hughey says downs drove
51. 1:37slowly so the children would be dead on
52. 1:39arrival
53. 1:40and the hospital nurses at mckinsey
54. 1:42willamette say the children's blood had
55. 1:44time to clot before being treated the
56. 1:46hospital's emergency room secretary
57. 1:48claims downs went into the restroom that
58. 1:49night the secretary says she heard the
59. 1:51water running in the bathroom and that
60. 1:53downes could have had the opportunity to
61. 1:54wash your hands the state is trying to
62. 1:56prove that downes had the chance to get
63. 1:58rid of any gunpowder residue on her
64. 2:00hands and bradley eyewitness news at the
65. 2:02drowns trial