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“Ms Shahat is your occupation?”

“I’ for my doctorate in literature”

“Have you met me before?”

“Yes”

Grant asked, “Were we together the evening of August between 6:00 pm and 7:30?”

Parisi said, “Objection Leading the witness, Your Honor”

“Overruled I’ to allow it”

Grant repeated his question, and the witness said, “That is correct”

“Why do you remember the exact time?”

“Because,” Ms Shaw said quietly, “you hiredat four”

The judge asked Shaw to speak up, and after she repeated her answer, Grant asked his next question

“We spent this tiether in the Hotel Slocum on Battery Street, a few minutes’ walk from Sci-Tron, is that correct?”

“

Yes”

“Was I carrying a bag of any kind?”