Trial Update Day Four

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Champommier Trial Update- Day Four

Testimony given by Supervisor (someone in a high/higher position) for Los Angeles area Drug Enforcement Agency operations. Evidence revealed that an encrypted cable/report was sent to the DEA headquarters in Washington, D.C., explaining the events/circumstances surrounding Champommier’s killing by DEA Agent. Cable/Report contained statements alleging that Champommier had received verbal warnings and had been shown law enforcement identification prior to being shot at. Testimony from Day One and Two contradict the assertions in said cable/report since Agent, Deputy, and all law enforcement officials in the immediate vicinity of Champommier’s car testified to not having identified themselves as law enforcement and to not having given verbal warnings prior to shooting Champommier.

Testimony given by expert witness author/researcher who produced the learned treatise often cited by Plaintiffs’ forensic experts. Testimony essentially became bogged down in the minutiae of giving or taking tenths of seconds for unholstering a weapon and whether Agent’s having been bumped into by the operation’s supervisor shortly before perception of Deputy allegedly being struck by Champommier’s car could have disturbed Agent’s focus, thereby adding time to the calculus of the overall time of “perception of events” to “decision to use deadly force” to “mechanical execution of that decision”

Trial will resume Monday afternoon (April 1, 2013). It is anticipated that Champommier's parents will testify.