Opinion
No. 3:10-00260
03-30-2012
JUDGE HAYNES
MOTION TO ALLOW COUNSEL TO QUESTION THE CASE AGENT HEATHER
WEYKER UNDER OATH REGARDING RECORDED STATEMENTS MADE BY
GOVERNMENT WITNESSES ("VICTIMS") NOT PROVIDED TO DEFENDANTS IN
VIOLATION OF THIS COURT'S ORDERS
Come now the Defendants Yassin Yusuf and Abdullahi Hashi, through counsel, and respectfully moves this Honorable Court to allow them to question the case agent, Heather Weyker, under oath on Thursday March 29, 2012 regarding recorded statements made by Government witnesses ("victims") not provided to the Defendants in violation of this Court's Orders. In addition, the Defendants are requesting to be allowed to inquire about the Jane Doe Two recordings. In support of this motion counsel would show as follows:
1. The Government has given notice, that other than the stated recordings contained in the Notice, that "[t]here are no further recordings made by or in the possession of the United States in relation to Jane Doe Two." (D.E. # 2141). The statement, however, may have been modified by a prior sentence that reads, "There is one further phone call that was recorded on the phone provided to Jane Doe Two for this purpose." The Government now maintains that it was only a nine second call with an automated message that was the non-pertinent call. "The United States did not consider this call to be pertinent to the