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1 with, I am not sure if it was at Barbara
2 Furner's house, but you met with Linda Arndt
3 one time and I believe your mother was
4 there? Do you remember that?
5 A. My mother?
6 Q. There was a meeting that was set
7 up between sort of within the first couple
8 of months of the homicide.
9 MR. KANE: I don't know the date.
10 MR. WOOD: January, February of
11 '97?
12 MR. KANE: Yeah. You met with
13 Linda Arndt. And it was you and your mother
14 and I believe Barbara Furner was there.
15 THE WITNESS: Okay.
16 MR. KANE: Remember that?
17 THE WITNESS: I don't remember my
18 mother being there, but I don't remember a
19 lot from those days.
20 Q. (By Mr. Kane) Okay. Why was it
21 at that meeting that one of the ground rules
22 was that you couldn't talk about the case?
23 A. I don't know.
24 Q. Well, that was your ground rule.
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1 us know that. Whose ground rule was it?
2 Linda Arndt? How was it conveyed? Who was
3 it conveyed to?
4 MR. KANE: Well, Linda Arndt was
5 told.
6 MR. WOOD: By whom?
7 MR. KANE: By your lawyer.
8 MR. WOOD: That is different.
9 Come on.
10 MR. KANE: During that meeting,
11 do you recall at one point telling her that,
12 when the subject matter of the case came up,
13 that you couldn't talk about that?
14 MR. WOOD: Do you have a
15 statement? Do you have a recorded statement?
16 Q. (By Mr. Kane) I am asking if
17 you have a recollection of it.
18 THE WITNESS: I have a
19 recollection --
20 MR. WOOD: Excuse me a second,
21 Patsy. Do you have a statement that she
22 made?
23 MR. KANE: Yes, I do.
24 MR. WOOD: Well, let her see it.
25 MR. KANE: No, I don't, I don't

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1 have, there is no statement made just because
2 there was no statement made. That was the
3 point, there was no discussion --
4 MR. WOOD: Was the discussion
5 that you are talking about recorded?
6 MR. KANE: No.
7 MR. WOOD: No report was entered
8 by Linda Arndt?
9 MR. KANE: There was a report.
10 MR. WOOD: Can we see that?
11 MR. KANE: I don't have it here.
12 It is Linda Arndt's report. It's not your
13 client's report.
14 MR. WOOD: But it's a statement
15 you are trying --
16 MR. KANE: I am asking if it is
17 true or false.
18 MR. WOOD: Let me finish. If
19 you have a report, we can look at it in
20 context. I think that would be fair.
21 MR. KANE: No. Well, I am
22 asking if she recalls it.
23 MR. WOOD: I mean, if you are
24 telling her that her lawyer told Linda Arndt
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1 certain area of questioning, are you asking
2 her basically did you follow your lawyer's
3 advice?
4 MR. KANE: I am asking if she
5 recalls having a meeting and recalls that
6 that was one of the ground rules?
7 MR. WOOD: Mr. Kane, when did
8 this develop after June of 1998?
9 MR. KANE: Once again, we are
10 back to the question that I asked you
11 earlier.
12 MR. WOOD: It is a new question.
13 Excuse me. It is a new question, based,
14 though, on developments that have occurred or
15 information that has been obtained since June
16 of 1998.
17 MR. KANE: So in other words, if
18 it was something that was available at the
19 time, you are saying you won't answer any
20 question to anything that was available to us
21 since June of 1998?
22 MR. WOOD: Here is the question.
23 Chief Beckner's letter to me of May the
24 10th, since the last interviews you gave to
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1 has been developed in the continuing
2 investigation in JonBenet's death. This has
3 resulted in many new questions.
4 MR. KANE: Okay.
5 MR. WOOD: Now, this information
6 had to be known to Linda Arndt and to all
7 of you back in 1997.
8 MR. KANE: Well, I wasn't on the
9 case until June of 1998, so it was news to
10 me.
11 MR. WOOD: Whether you were on
12 the case or not does not dictate whether
13 someone else on the case would know this.
14 MR. KANE: Let's stop arguing.
15 Are you telling her she can't answer any
16 questions about this?
17 MR. WOOD: No.
18 MR. KANE: I don't want to debate
19 it. It's either yes or no.
20 MR. WOOD: It is not always black
21 and white, Michael. Sometimes there is an
22 in between.
23 MR. KANE: That's what I'm
24 saying, I'm asking the question and are you
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1 her to answer?
2 MR. WOOD: Why don't you give me
3 a minute.
4 THE WITNESS: Why is it
5 important --
6 MR. KANE: There is nothing to
7 debate, there is nothing to debate.
8 MR. WOOD: I am not debating.

Clearly, Patsy didn't know what this line of questioning was about and she was ready to answer - her memory of all that was not clear, but she was willing to try.

Lin Wood, on the other hand, was looking at the larger picture - he was tired of this being an interrogation and not the Q&A and brainstorming session that was planned. You can see this more in the next segment. Pay attention to what K&C - specifically Beckner - asked for when this interview was set up.