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CaGase2N20-08880d44RJN Docounsen6983s Filed 10/06/21 PBgg@ 16 6623 9 L9LSberl 1 MR. DeMARCO: OK. 2 THE COURT: Was it an issue you wanted to speak to the 3 government about first? 4 MR. DeMARCO: I did consult with the government. 5 was unpersuasive. I was hoping to be more successful with your 6 Honor. 7 THE COURT: OK. And the first witness is? 8 MR. DeMARCO: Mr. Rasheen Vega. 9 THE COURT: Go ahead. And if you could speak into the 10 mic, please? 11 MR. DeMARCO: It seems to me, your Honor, from my 12 reading of the 3500 material, that we can expect Mr. Vega to 13 testify to something like this: That he was the nephew of 14 Mr. Jones, that he was 11 years old at the time that Mr. Jones 15 was shot in June of 2000, that he witnessed a portion of that 16 shooting or the aftermath of that shooting which I am OK with. 17 The problem that I have with his prospective testimony is this: 18 It also appears from reading the 3500 that the government will 19 seek to elicit from Mr. Vega testimony about the horrific, 20 horrific bedsores or compression sores that Mr. Jones was 21 suffering from at the time of his death. I believe there is at 22 least notes that Mr. Vega observed the sores to be oozing, 23 observed Mr. Jones to be in terrible, terrible pain and 24 suffering at or near the time of his death, and my concern is 25 that, A, in light of the fact that two doctors are being called SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00011124