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approach before we do that.

(Whereupon, a bench conference was held
outside the hearing of the jury.)

clearly opened the door for me to get out the point that
there have been ramifications for him leaving the church,
and that, in fact, he has been followed and harassed. He
asked him, “Well, they didn’t go around provoking you,
did they? They didn’t do anything to you, did they?”
And, in fact, he asked, “If you didn’t like it, you could
just leave and walk out?” Like there would be no
repercussions, and in fact, there have been.

response to him saying he couldn’t leave. I didn’t open
any door there. I was very careful about that. I didn’t
mention the videos, I didn’t mention what Mr. Minton did
on the videos and whether that was “Fair Game” what he
did. I kept the door very tight so that we wouldn’t get
in that part.

questions that I asked him. He was responding to
questions asked of him by the prosecutor.

go into this line of questioning, what do you expect to