my addiction is to opiate painkillers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. and when did you first become dependent or addicted to opioids? oxycodone or opiates in general? opiates in general. i m not quite sure of the exact date, but i can give you a time frame. i hurt my knee really bad playing football in college, and i had a knee surgery, and the medical science at the time was such that the surgery didn t work. bottom line. so it just didn t last. within a couple of years from that, i started having a lot of knee trouble. ultimately i had a couple of surgeries but the last surgery i
how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got. it came from i battled that addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate painkillers. specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. when did you first become dependent or addicted to opioids? oxycodone or opiates in general? opiates in general. i m not quite sure of the
0 was doing it and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put those that financial information into the final document. and that s the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that is what was going to be, if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. the jury has heard about testimony of you stealing client funds. did you do that? i did. did you steal or divert that fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got. it came from i battled that addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain
0 talked about that he found later in my office. and it was tight it was handwritten, ready to be tightened up by, you know because of the charges against paw, i kept everything close in the civil case, it was danny in his office that was doing it, and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put that financial information into the final document, and that s the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that was what was going to be if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. alec, the jury has heard about testimony of you stealing client funds. did you do that? i did, yes. did you steal or divert that farris fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not