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To: witchhunt@MIT.EDU
Subject: Practice makes perfect and the quality of puppet shows: more outrageous verses
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 94 13:23:23 EDT
From: "Jonathan G. Harris, Dept. of Chem Eng, MIT" <harris@MIT.EDU>

Interesting selections from the transcript of Gerald Amirault's trial.
[Brian M. age 6 1/2, a child witness testifying on May 26, 1986
against Gerald Amirault in Comm. vs. G. Amirault]
Cross by Julianne Balliro:
page 31-98
Q: Okay. Well, do yo practice things about Fells Acres, too, the same
way you rpactice your ABCs?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay. You've been saying them over and over and over again?
A: Yes.
Q: And you say them with lots of different people?
A: Yes.
Q: And if you forget, sometimes people help you remember?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay, and sometimes there's things--there are some things that they don't
   help you remember, right?
A: Right.
Q: Things like who Steve is, right?
A: Right.
  [Steve is a mysterious bad man who Brian mentioned on an interview]
....
Redirect  by Prosecuter Larry Hardoon. 
page 31-100 to 31-101

Q Brian, Juliane asked you about a puppet show; do you remember?
A Yes.
Q Okay. And did you go to one puppet show or more than one puppet show?
A Just only two.
Q Okay, there's two. And can you tell me what the two of them were?
A I forget.
Q All right. Well, were they both good puppet shows?
A No, one was bad and one was good.
QOkay, and what happened at the one puppet show that was bad, Brian?
A They took everyone's clothes off.
Q Allright. And did they do anything after they took everyone's clothes off?
        Ms. Balliro: Objection.
	The Court: Overruled.
A I forget that one.
Q Okay. So you don't remember what they did after they took everyone's clothes
off?
	Ms. Balliro: Objection. Motion to strike.
	court: Overruled.
A. No.
.....
page 31-103: Bench conference: 
	Ms. Balliro: Your Honor, I would just move to strike the business about
"they" took everyone's clothes off. We don't know who "they" is or whether
"they" includes Tooky or Tooky was at the puppet show. The only reason I went
into the puppet show was because he connected it to the house.
Jonathan G. Harris
Department of Chemical Engineering,  MIT Rm 66-450 
25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
harris@athena.mit.edu (617)253-5273  Fax 253-9695