2.Sherry Bennett — Direct
43 linesCOURT CLERK: All right. You can step down.
Call your next witness.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: State calls Sherrie Bennett.
(Witness exits.)
JUDGE HANKINSON: If you'd face the clerk and be sworn, please.
whereupon, SHERRIE BENNETT was called as a witness, having been first duly sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
JUDGE HANKINSON: Have a seat and slide up to the microphone, please, ma'am.
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MS. CAPPLEMAN:
MS. CAPPLEMAN: Please say and spell your name.
SHERRY BENNETT: Investigator Sherrie Bennett, S-H-E-R-R-I-E, B-E-N-N-E-T-T.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: And how are you employed?
SHERRY BENNETT: I'm an investigator with the Tallahassee Police Department.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: How long have you been with TPD?
SHERRY BENNETT: Eleven years.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: Did you have any role in reference to the wiretap that was conducted in reference to the case that we're here about?
SHERRY BENNETT: Yes, I did.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: what was your role in reference to the wiretap?
SHERRY BENNETT: I was to secure all documents and evidence in the case.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: All right. So we heard about the process that's used for collecting the data from a wiretap, which the data is mainly phone calls, correct?
SHERRY BENNETT: That's correct.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: And once the data is collected, how is it stored? Is it on a disk, a thumb drive, a hard drive?
SHERRY BENNETT: It was provided to me on a disk.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: All right. And were you the person that was designated to be the custodian or, like, the guardian of that data?
SHERRY BENNETT: Yes, I was.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: All right. where were the disks kept?
SHERRY BENNETT: I have a filing cabinet in my office.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: All right. Is the filing cabinet locked?
SHERRY BENNETT: Yes, it is.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: And your office is at the Tallahassee Police Department?
SHERRY BENNETT: Yes, it is.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: who else had access to the filing cabinet?
SHERRY BENNETT: NO one.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: All right. Have you had an opportunity to review the disks, State's Exhibit 138?
SHERRY BENNETT: Yes, I have.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: Does State's 138 contain fair and accurate, complete copies of calls that were made and stored by you as the custodian of these wiretap recordings?
SHERRY BENNETT: Yes, it was.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: Okay.
MS. CAPPLEMAN: No further questions.
JUDGE HANKINSON: Garcia.
MR. ZANGENEH: No questions for Mr. Garcia.
JUDGE HANKINSON: Magbanua.
MS. KAWASS: No.
MR. DECOSTE: No questions.
JUDGE HANKINSON: All right. You can step down.
Call your next witness.