T.C. Warner: Linda Ruland

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• Mr. Spera : Linda, I'd like you to describe the events that took place in the 1st April 1994, please.

  Linda Ruland : My father woke me up at 6 o'clock in the morning. Who's standing next to my bed with the private detective, and he told me that he would take me down to the Center for Evaluation.

  Mr. Spera : Did they in fact do so?

  Linda Ruland : Yes. They took me by force to Wayside Psychiatric, and I've been there ever since.

  Mr. Spera : Linda, you ever attempted suicide?

  Linda Ruland : No.

  Mr. Spera : You ever deliberately trying to hurt yourself in any way?

  Linda Ruland : Nope.

  Mr. Spera : You were deliberately seek to hurt anyone else?

  Linda Ruland : I-I stood up for myself in the fight, but I never attacked anybody.

  Mr. Spera : You have a boyfriend?

  Linda Ruland : Yes, I do.

  Mr. Spera : Did you probably get along with him?

  Linda Ruland : No, he doesn't get along with him.

  Mr. Spera : In your opinion, why is that?

  Linda Ruland : He doesn't get along with him because he's black. No matter what he says. The truth is that he doesn't like me being with the black guy. And that's why James wasn't welcome in his house. And that's why I'm in a mental hospital.

  Mr. Spera : Thank yo. I have nothing further.

• Jonathan Rollins : To the question, have you ever deliberately hurt yourself? You answered no, isn't that right?

  Linda Ruland : Right.

  Jonathan Rollins : On February 6th of this year, you were taken to the county USC emergency room, were you not?

  Linda Ruland : Yes, I was.

  Jonathan Rollins : What was that?

  Linda Ruland : I took some pills, I shouldn't have taken.

  Jonathan Rollins : You combine said pills with a significant amount of alcohol, did you not?

  Linda Ruland : Yes.

  Jonathan Rollins : Would you call that a deliberate attempt to hurt yourself?

  Linda Ruland : No, I wouldn't. I would call it being a party and, in getting a little wild.

  Jonathan Rollins : I see. What's uh, 40, Mrs. Ruland?

  Linda Ruland : It's bottle malt liquor.

  Jonathan Rollins : It's a 40-ounce bottle malt liquors, isn't it?

  Linda Ruland : That's why they call it in Fort.

  Jonathan Rollins : How many of them do you drink an average day?

  Linda Ruland : I don't know.

  Jonathan Rollins : A ballpark figure more than one less than 10.

  Mr. Spera : Witness said she didn't know.

  Judge Mary Harcourt : Let's move on, Mr. Rollins.

• Jonathan Rollins : Have you ever known your boyfriend gonna carry a gun?

  Linda Ruland : I don't know whether he carries a gun or not.

  Jonathan Rollins : Did you not on more than one occasion warn your father that your boyfriend always carries the gun?

  Linda Ruland : If I said it, I said it to scare him.

  Jonathan Rollins : Have you been having sexual relations with you boyfriend?

  Linda Ruland : Yes.

  Jonathan Rollins : What if any precautions did you take against sexually transmitted diseases or possibility become pregnant?

  Linda Ruland : Either we used a condom or we did things you don't need a condom for.

  Jonathan Rollins : Did you tell your father that more than anything else you want to get pregnant James' baby?

  Linda Ruland : If I said that, I said that to scare him.

  Jonathan Rollins : It work. I have nothing further.