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证人14:莫里女友Nicole Alvarez证词
Witness #14—Nicole Alvarez
(Sidebar at bench. Someone, an attorney for Alvarez introduced. A reporter whispers to me she looks like she might be from the Dominican Republic.)
Alvarez identifies Dr. Murray for the record.
DDA Q: When did you first meet?
Alvarez: I don’t recall exactly, around 2005. (snip) Met him in Las Vegas.
DDA asks where.
Alvarez: Specifically? I met him in a club.
DDA Q: Were you employed at the club?
Alvarez: Yes I was.
DDA Q: What position? (Objection, sustained.)
When you met Conrad Murray in the club, was he a guest, or was he an employee?
Alvarez: I believe from my understanding he was a guest.
DDA Q: When you met Dr. Murray, did he introduce himself or did you introduce yourself? Or was there some other way?
Alvarez: I don’t recall exactly how that came about.
DDA Q: After you met him the first time, did you maintain contact with him via phone or in person?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Did you give him your phone number when you met him at the club?
Alvarez: I don’t recall exactly.
DDA Q: When you met him where were you living at the time in Los Angeles?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Did you commute from LA to Las Vegas to your job?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Developed an intimate (personal?) relationship? When?
Alvarez: I don’t recall exactly.
DDA Q: How long after you met did you start a personal relationship with him?
Alvarez: Quite some time had past. I can’t recall how long. It’s something that developed over time.
DDA Q: Over that time, would you see him in person?
Alvarez: At times. Not all times.
DDA Q: Did that relationship develop in Las Vegas?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Did it also develop in Los Angeles?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Your present address since 2005 have you always lived in Los Angeles?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Would it be correct to say you were involved in a personal relationship on 2009?
Alvarez: I assume so yes.
DDA Q: In 2007?
Alvarez: I can’t recall.
DDA Q: When you developed this relationship, did he inform you that he was still married?
(Sprocket note: I think there are several objections here along this line of questioning.)
At some point during the relationship did you find out that he was married? (Objection, sustained.)
During months of April, May, June of 2009, was Dr. Murray living at your residence?
Alvarez: Can you clarify the question please?
(Sprocket note: From this point on, it was PAINFUL! She kept asking for the question to be repeated, or didn't understand the question, or said she wanted to be as accurate as possible.)
DDA Q: Let’s start with April 2009? Was Dr. Murray living at your residence?
Alvarez: I’m trying to answer accurately. I wouldn’t describe it as permanent residence.
DDA Q: How would you describe it? (Did you know where he lived?)
Alvarez: I would assume in Las Vegas.
(Sprocket note: Several more questions along this vein.)
DDA Q: Do you have a son with Dr. Murray?
Alvarez: Yes. Born in March, 2009.
DDA Q: In April 2009, how much time was Dr. Murray was spending in LA?
Alvarez: I don’t recall how much time.
DDA Q: One night a month?
Alvarez: No. It was quite frequent.
DDA Q: One week?
Alvarez: At times.
DDA Q: Two weeks?
Alvarez: At times.
DDA Q: Three weeks?
Alvarez: I’m not comfortable with three weeks. (DDA asks another question to describe how often he was staying at her residence.) I think you’re asking me to give you an example, correct?
DDA Q: I’m asking you how frequently Dr. Murray was staying at your residence?
Alvarez: I think it’s fair to say that he was staying 2 weeks out of the month.
DDA Q: When he was not there, where did he stay?
Alvarez: I do not know.
DDA Q: When he left your house you didn’t know where he stayed?
Alvarez: No.
(Sprocket note: DDA questions about her just giving birth in April, and she is fighting/deflecting answering every question. I can’t keep up.)
Alvarez: When I mentioned two weeks, it wasn’t two consecutive weeks. So I can not say that I saw him consecutively for two weeks every single day.
DDA Q: So he would come [during April], Dr Murray would stay overnight two, three, four days at a time, go someplace else you’re not sure where, and then he would return and stay again?
Alvarez: That sounds about right. Two, three days, but not three, four days.
(Question again about not knowing where he stayed when he wasn't with her.) Well, I don’t have expectations of Dr. Murray, so that’s fair to say. That’s just a rule that i live by.
DDA Q: When Dr. M would spend two, three days with you, would he let you know that he would be away from you and your son for a period of time? (Objection 252 sustained.)
During the month of April, 2009, you would not know if Dr Murray would be at your house?
Alvarez: Could you repeat the question?
DDA Q: You were not sure from one day to the next, you were not sure if Dr Murray would be there from one day to the next.?
Alvarez: Can you repeat the question?
Judge Pastor: You’ve got to pay attention.
DDA Q: Miss Alvarez according to your memory, Dr. Murray would spend a few days at your residence and come back?
Alvarez: Correct.
DDA Q: Did you have any idea if you knew when he would be there or away from your residence?
Alvarez: I would not have an idea.
DDA Q: In May of 2009, did Dr. Murray maintain the same type of schedule, as in April?
Alvarez: That’s fair to say.
DDA Q: Did Dr. Murray spend the same amount of time in May as in April as to the same stretch of time?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: In June of 2009, did he (maintain the same amount of time)?
Alvarez: That’s fair to say.
DDA Q: In May, did he tell you when he would be returning?
Alvarez: No.
DDA Q: In June (same question).
Alvarez: No.
DDA Q: During that time, would you be in telephone contact with him?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Would he let you know where he was?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: But you spoke with him every day?
Alvarez: I never said I spoke to him every day.
(Sprocket note: More questions I miss.)
DDA Q: What month in 200, would you say that Dr. Murray spent the most amount of time in LA with you?
Alvarez: I’d say, June of 2009.
DDA Q: Did Dr Murray spend more time at your residence in June than in May?
(Sprocket note: Missed answer)
Did Dr. Murray spend more time at your residence in June than in May? (Brazil mentions her child.)
Alvarez: Not June, but in March, he started to spend more time in LA than before.
DDA Q: Was he paying your rent in March 2009? (Sprocket note: I don’t get answer)
Alvarez: It was around 2,500 per month. (Sprocket note: Not positive about that amount.)
He wasn’t responsible for my rent. Everything was in my name. I was responsible for my rent. If he wanted to help me that was up to him.
He helped her at times but she was working as an actress, shooting various projects.
At that time, I was working more than ever.
DDA Q: During March of 2009, was Dr. Murray working with Mr. Jackson as his personal physician?
Alvarez: March, 2009, I can’t recall exactly.
DDA Q: When did you become aware that he was working for Mr. Jackson?
Alvarez: I can’t recall exactly.
DDA Q: Were your pregnant with your son?
Alvarez: Noooooo, I was not pregnant.
[She] learned prior to the time she got pregnant. "Actually, I learned way before I got pregnant. I can’t remember an exact date."
DDA Q: Can you give me a year?
Alvarez: If I back track by month, it was very early on when she was pregnant. One month.
DDA Q: Ms. Alvarez, you take the time that you need. When did you first learn that you were pregnant?
(Sprocket note: She can’t answer. I can see her hands in her lap and she's counting on her fingers! Oh. My. G!)
Alvarez: “June of....”
DDA Q: 2008? When did you first learn that Dr. Murray was working for Mr. Jackson?
Alvarez: I don’t recall.
DDA Q: In June of 2008 were you spending time with Dr Murray?
Alvarez: At times.
DDA Q: At that time did he tell you he was working for Mr. Jackson?
Alvarez: I don’t recall.
DDA Q: When you were working in Las Vegas, did at some time he tell you he was working for Michael Jackson?
Alvarez: That’s fair to say at some point that I became aware that he was working for Michael Jackson.
DDA Q: When was that?
Alvarez: From my recollection, it was here in Los Angeles.
DDA Q: When he was staying with you, did you become aware that he was providing care for Michael Jackson at Carolwood Drive?
Alvarez: No. You’re asking me—
DDA Q: Did Dr. Murray ever tell you that he was providing care for Mr. Jackson in his home?
(Sprocket note: I roll my eyes. I can't believe this.)
DDA Q: Let me make it simple for you. (Asks question in a simpler way.)
Alvarez: Yes. That was my assumption.
(Sprocket note: Lord.)
DDA Q: Did he ever tell you (that he was providing care for Michael Jackson)?
Alvarez: I knew he was his personal physician.
DDA Q: What did he tell you?
Alvarez: Absolutely nothing. (snip) He’s a professional man, and I know my place and it’s not my position to know his patients, his business or his whearabouts or anything of that sort. (snip) I was aware that, when Dr. Murray was in LA, he was at times to my belief, with Michael. As to what capacity, I [didn’t know anything about that].
DDA Q: (Do you) know if he was treating anyone else while in LA?
Alvarez: Not to my knowledge.
DDA Q: Describe to me, Dr. Murray's schedule, during the time that he was staying with you in April. Did he go (to Michael's house) during the day, did he go in the evening?
Alvarez: During the best of my recollection, it would be in the nighttime.
DDA Q: So Dr. Murray would be there with you in the day? You had a baby...?
Alvarez: Fair to say.
DDA Q: What time did he leave your residence?
Alvarez: I would say, approximately on average, I used to put my son to sleep at 9 o'clock. It was never at the same time, on an average it would be 9 o'clock sometimes ten.
DDA Q: And when would he return? The next day?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: What time did he return?
Alvarez: It was always different times, it was never the same. I would say usually it was in the morning. 7, 8 , 9, 10... there wasn’t a regular pattern. There wasn’t a time that he would DEFINITELY return every morning.
DDA Q: When he returned, what would he do, normally?
Alvarez: He would relax, go to the gym, and sleep....sleep for a large majority of the day.
DDA Q: Did you have dinner together?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: So that was typical routine for him that he would leave 9 10 o'clock, and that he would return some time the next morning.
Alvarez: That would be fair to say.
(DDA questions now about the London tour and upcoming trip.)
Alvarez knew that Dr. Murray would be going to England. She was invited to go along with him. Doesn’t recall when she was invited.
DDA Q: Were you excited about the trip?
Alvarez: Definitely! Definitely.
DDA Q: Did you know how long you would be gone?
Alvarez: He never told me exactly how long (we would be gone), I knew it would be .......that we would be home for the holidays.
She had not made any plans (regarding a question to give up her apartment or not) for the trip. The baby is mentioned. “I was concerned. I wanted to go. I had a baby. “
DDA Q: The baby might have prevented you from going on the trip? Childcare, traveling.
She just wasn’t sure that it was in the best interests of the child, correct?
Alvarez: Yes.
(Sprocket note: So he had made arrangements for her to go...)
DDA Q: In May to June, he said that there would be packages coming to the house?
Alvarez: Yes. He didn’t really say anything, other than if the packages came, to bring them inside. But if they came to my unit, I would bring them inside the unit. So, (he said) just to be ware that they were coming, to bring them inside and to put hem aside for him.
DDA Q: Did he tell you what they were?
Alvarez: No.
DDA Q: Did he tell you that they were important?
Alvarez: No. He would just let me know, out of respect to me, that there was a delivery coming...
DDA Q: Describe your apartment and deliveries. Did you receive packages at your residence that were addressed to Dr. Conrad Murray?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Was it on a regular basis?
Alvarez: I don’t recall it being on a regular basis, I just know it had been a few times.
DDA Q: What type of things were they?
Alvarez: I don’t know what they were.
DDA Q: Did you ever open any packages that came to Dr. Conrad Murray?
Alvarez: Absolutely not.
DDA Q: Some of the packages were left in the lobby?
Alvarez: I can recall one or two times where I was going for a walk with my child... and I would always check and sometimes there would be something there.
She testifies there would be mail addressed to him, addressed to him in her mail box, but there would be packages left in a common area.
DDA Q: And sometimes packages left at her doorstep?
Alvarez: Yes. (snip) He would always inform me if there was something coming as I recall.
DDA Q: Did he ever tell you what these packages were or what they were for?
Alvarez: No.
DDA Q: Did you ever ask?
Alvarez: No.
(DDA prepares to show witness exhibits.)
(Sprocket note: I can’t believe she is struggling to answer these questions. They’re not difficult.)
DDA Q: Like to show you a series of documents and see if you recognize them. Exhibit people’s 22.
This is a FedEX receipt dated .... do you see 1540 Sixth Street?
Alvarez: Yes, her address in 2009.
DDA Q: Do you recognize that signature?
Alvarez: It very well could be, it looks like my signature. (Sprocket note: Holy cow.)
DDA Q: Do you see where it says recipient, care of Nicole Alvary?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Do you see where it says Applied Pharmacy Services?
Alvarez: Yes. But she didn't necessarily pay any attention to that.
(Sprocket note: Another prosecution question I miss.)
Alvarez: You have to think of the big picture here. I have a lot of things going on. I sign for it. I may have glanced at it, and maybe read a paper in detail, for something that as for me. (But if it was for Dr. Murray she didn't pay much attention.)
DDA Q: But you would have just confirmed that it belongs to you or Conrad Murray?
Alvarez: That’s correct.
(DDA shows Exhibit 23, a FedEx receipt dated April 29, 2009, addressed to her apartment on 6th street. Signed for by a P. Maria.)
DDA Q: Do you know a P. Maria that resided at that residence?
Alvarez: No. I’m the only one who resided at that residence.
DDA goes over the part of the receipt that says C/O Nicole Alvery. The witness verifies that her name is spelled wrong with a Y instead of a Z.
DDA shows a May 1st, 2009 Fed Ex receipt to Alvarez’ apartment, c/o her from the same pharmacy to Dr. Conrad Murray.
Alvarez: That’s correct.
DDA shows witness a FedEx receipt dated May 13th 2009. Alvarez doesn’t recognize the signature on that receipt. DDA notes same shipper applied Pharmacy Services. Alvarez says there’s not a doorman...
DDA Q: Was there anyone beside her who was living or staying with her? Did your mom or someone helping you with the baby.
Alvarez: Absolutely. There was always someone coming (helping out).
DDA Q: So, possibly one of those people could have signed for a package that could have signed for it? (Objection, sustained.)
Did anyone tell you that was a guest at your apartment sign for a package?
Alvarez: Not that I recall.
DDA shows another FedEx package to Dr. Murray c/o her dated May 15.
DDA question as to if there were packages left that she did not sign for. Alvarez says, perhaps, yes, that she would come home and there would be a package left.
DDA shows another package, same shipper. I miss the date. This oneAlvarez answers, “Perhaps she did that."
Another package; same shipper—Applied Pharmacy Services. Same thing. Alvarez says “I think that’s correct.”
DDA Q: Is Conrad Murray currently staying at your apartment?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Do you recognize Mr. Chernoff sitting here to my left?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: Did you contact Ed Chernoff, for legal advice after Michael Jackson died?
Alvarez: No. There would be no reason to contact Mr. Ed Chernoff for personal reasons.
DDA Q: Why did you contact Mr. Chernoff?
Alvarez: I contacted Ed Chernoff after I had received a subpoena.
DDA Q: Why did you do that?
Alvarez: I thought it would be a reasonable thing to do. I think any thinking person would do that.
I don’t recall exactly how the exchange (as to how she reached out to Ed Chernoff via Conrad) for legal advice. I just wanted to know what it (the subpoena) was.
DDA Q: Did he explain that to you?
Alvarez: I don’t know. I don’t think he did? He made a referral. He just put me in touch with Joseph Low.
DDA Q: Mr. Chernoff gave you Mr. Low’s phone number? Did you come to court as requested back in 2009?
Alvarez: Absolutely.
DDA Q: And Mr. Low came with you?
Alvarez: Yes.
DDA Q: You also reached out to in 2010 to an attorney.
Alvarez: I believe so, yes.
DDA Q: And who was that attorney? (Sprocket note: Alvarez is vague; I can’t hear the answer.)
Was that Mr. Penna? (sp?)
Alvarez: I think so...
(Another question I totally miss.)
(DDA Brazil takes a moment to confer with DDA Walgren.)
DDA Q: When you began an intimate and personal relationship with Conrad Murray, were you aware that he had six other children? (Objection! Sidebar at the bench.)
(Sprocket note: It’s 11:45 am. This direct exam felt like pulling teeth.)
DDA Q: Dr. Conrad Murray is the father of your son?
Alvarez: Absolutely.
DDA: No more questions.
No cross. |
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