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Prosecutor: Why did you follow Coy Jones as Clayborne’s knowledge of Jones’s
opposed to the other guy? methamphetamine possession:
Agent Clayborne: Well, we knew that Coy Jones Prosecutor: [Defense counsel] also asked you, let
had just received a large amount of me characterize this, sort of confronted you about
methamphetamine. when you said you knew a drug deal had gone
down, but you had not seen anything. Do you
Prosecutor: And once you knew that he had
recall that?
received that methamphetamine, what did you do?
Agent Clayborne: That’s correct.
Agent Clayborne: We were coordinating a traffic
stop of the vehicle driven by Coy Jones, which is Prosecutor: How did you know that a drug deal
the white truck. had, in fact, occurred?
Prosecutor: And why did you want to stop that Agent Clayborne: So once we saw or the other
vehicle? units saw what looked like a drug deal, I made a
phone call to my confidential source, who then
Agent Clayborne: Because it had
made some phone calls himself and got back to me
methamphetamine, we wanted to seize it and
that the deal had happened. (emphasis added).
arrest Coy Jones.
Prosecutor: Based on that information, you
On cross-examination, defense counsel
decided to stop Coy Jones?
questioned Agent Clayborne regarding his
asserted knowledge that Jones had received Agent Clayborne: That’s correct.
methamphetamine:
Defense counsel asked to approach the bench and
Defense: [Y]ou didn’t see any interaction between renewed the motion for disclosure of the
Mr. Jones and the silver truck, right? confidential informant. Counsel argued that Agent
Clayborne testified about the content of what the
Agent Clayborne: That’s correct.
informant said and that Jones had the right to
Defense: But you testified that you knew Jones confront the witnesses against him. The district
had received a large amount of methamphetamine. court stated that the testimony regarding the
confidential informant came in response to
Agent Clayborne: That’s correct. defense questions on cross-examination and that
the defense opened the door to the testimony. The
Defense: But you didn’t know that, right? You
court also denied Jones’s renewed motion to turn
hadn’t seen anything. You hadn’t seen an
over reports on the confidential informant.
exchange of methamphetamine or money.
“Police officers cannot, through their trial
Agent Clayborne: But I knew it was.Defense: You
testimony, refer to the substance of statements
believed it, but you didn’t know it.
given to them by nontestifying witnesses in the
Agent Clayborne: I knew it. I mean, if you’re course of their investigation, when those
asking me, I knew it. statements inculpate the defendant.” An officer’s
testimony need not repeat the absent witness’s
Defense counsel then moved on to other exact statement to implicate the Confrontation
questions. On re-direct examination, the Clause. Rather, “[w]here an officer’s testimony
government returned to the subject of Agent leads to the clear and logical inference that out-of-
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