did you steal divert the 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, but it came from you know, i battled 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 killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. when did you first become dependent or addicted opiods? oxycodone or opiods in general? opiods in general. i m not sure of the exact date. i can give you a timeframe. i hurt my knee really bad playing football in college. i had a knee surgery. the medical science at the time was such that the surgery didn t work, bottom line. it just didn t last. within a couple years of that i started having a lot of knee troubles. ultimately i had to have a couple of surgeries, but the last surgery i ha
anymore. and instead, i asked him to shoot me. did you ask him to shoot you as a sympathy ploy? as a sympathy ploy? no. what was the end goal that you wanted to accomplish? i meant for him to shoot me so i d be gone. and who was this? who did you ask to do this? andy smith. and did he, in fact, shoot you? he did. and where was that located, not your gunshot, but where were you shot, in hampton county. hampton county, just right on
did you meet this did the person you called bring you more pills? you know, i don t know if he brought me more pills or not. because by the time i met with him after meeting with chris and after, you know, the starting of the withdrawals, i changed my plans. and what was the change in plans? not to get pills from him anymore. and instead i asked him to shoot me. did you ask him to shoot you as a sympathy ploy or did you want as a sympathy ploy? why did you ask him to shoot you? what was the end goal that you wanted to accomplish? i meant for him to shoot me
as a sympathy ploy or did you as a sympathy ploy? yes. why did you ask him to shoot you? what was your end goal that you wanted to accomplish? i meant for him to shoot me so i would be gone. who is this? who did you ask to do this? andy smith. did he, in fact, shoot you? he did. where was that located, not your gunshot, but where were you shot in hampton or where were you? it s hampton county. it s right on the road that runs along the sawkahachee river. why did you want to be gone?
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