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have several clients in the Pinellas County Sheriff’s
Department.
 
THE COURT:
Anything about those
relationships that would be so strong that we should be
concerned about what I just explained?
 
MS. X:
I don’t think it would. I
am honestly not sure.
 
THE COURT:
Okay, as we go along we are
going to ask a lot of questions. And some of you may
have answers like this from time to time. We certainly
understand that. Sometimes you have got to search your
mind a little bit. I understand that. When, Ms.
X, in your case in particular and others of you in
general, if you have a situation like this I only ask
that you consider it while we are asking questions. And
don’t rely on us to come back to you. If you get to a
point in this question and answer process where all of
the sudden it becomes real clear in your mind, you have
had a change to think about it, and you can now clearly
take a position on it, would you just raise your hand and
say, “You know, I have thought about that question that
you asked me and this is really how it is.” Okay?
 
And for those of you that have these soul
searching kind of responses please do that for us. There
is a lot of you, and we would not want to inadvertently

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