Fleak: Yes.
DDA shows new photos of syringes, of oxygen tank, other items, taking Investigator Fleak through identifying photos with more items, including an IV bag with connected tubing
DDA Q: Was there also an IV stand—(interrupted)
(Sprocket note: I think someone was knocking at door—bailiff got up.)
DDA Q: [Regarding location of IV stand] If you were facing at the bed, at the foot of the bed, the head of the bed it would be to your right?
Fleak: Yes. [ed. note: This makes sense, as the IV was positioned in Jackson’s left leg.]
(Sprocket note: I’m starting to yawn. I got less than four hours of sleep last night. It’s going to be a long two hours now.)
DDA is showing Investigator Fleak photos of nightstand and IV stand and IV kit attached and asks her to identify.
Fleak. Yes. She describes where everything is. “It’s a saline bag” [ed. note: IV solution]
DDA Q: Recovered an open box of disposable hypodermic needles?
Fleak: Yes. It was on the two tables as well.
DDA Q: Recovered IV catheters?
Fleak: Yes.
DDA Q: Is it all documented in your form?
Fleak: Yes it is.
DDA Q: Recovered an empty vial of Propofol and (garbled; could be midazolam
or lorazepam, both of which were given and are given IV)?
Fleak replies vials were found between the two nightstands. DDA presents more photographs for Investigator Fleak
DDA Q: Was this an empty full, partially full bottle of Propofol?
Fleak: It was empty. (She verifies where the Propofol vial was on the floor.)
DDA Q: 200 mg bottle of Propofol?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: The IV from the IV bag. Last page of your worksheet. “IV bag from the IV stand.”
Did it have liquid in it?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: Did you have it fingerprinted?
Fleak: I don’t remember.
Q: This IV bag had some tubing coming down from it.
Fleak: Yes. And in the tubing hand an IV in it?
Halfway from the tubing there was a clamp and that clamp had a syringe in it.
The plunger was depressed. I don’t remember if there was a small amount of liquid in the syringe.
Q: Was the plunger completely depressed?
Fleak: I don’t remember exactly where it was.
Q: Was there residue?
Fleak: I don’t remember?
Q: Was there more tubing below that IV port?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: Did that tubing have liquid in it?
Fleak: I don’t remember.
Q: Did the tubing above it have liquid in it?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: Was that clear?
Fleak: Yes
Q: Was the IV bag clear?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: Did it have a milky appearance to it?
Fleak: It was clear. [ed. Note: this is setting up the “Jackson self-injected” theory. Defense attorney was asking for location of ports, or openings, in the IV tubing, and the location of those ports, theorizing a port was close enough for Jackson to use and then clear the tubing above with saline.]
Q: When you went back on the 29th, was this the only thing you collected from the bedroom?
Fleak: Yes.
(Sprocket note: missing some of this exchange)
Q: One of the items, I think this bag, fingerprint dusted, the only [thing] you remember is from the IV bag itself?
Fleak: Yes. Remembers that the IV bag had about 1/2 to 3/4 full when it was hanging.
Q: You were there on the 25th, and you found quite a few things. Can I have the photographs?
The break was called at 2:46pm
3:03 pm
Resumption of cross of Coroner Investigator.
Fleak: "There was a vial, with some medications.”
Q: They all appeared to be used?
(Sprocket note: did not hear answer)
Q: What was crumpled up?
Fleak: The packaging.
Q: You described that as a bag of medical garbage?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: All of these things, all of the vials, hand been used? Is that correct?
Fleak: Yes.
Q: They were open and they had liquid in them?
Fleak: All those things as trash? (Objection, sustained.)
Q: In the main room, where was the IV bag on the stand that had the syringe in it? In that room? In this corner. (She's pointing to an exhibit on the screen with a laser pointer.)
Why wasn’t that taken on the 25th?
Fleak: I wasn’t taking anything that was injectable. I’m usually looking for pill bottles. At the time I didn’t know what Propofol was when I was there. I didn’t know it was injected intravenously. I didn’t know it would be used to administer the drugs that were there.
Q: So you saw the IV drugs there?
Fleak: I saw bottles of medications.
Q: Asks about the “broken” syringe.
Fleak: I should have described it as “separate.” It was not cracked it was not broken it was not defective in any way. They were just separate—the needle and the plunger.
Q: As you sit here now you would have described it as a broken syringe?
Fleak: No I wouldn’t it.
Q: Why did you collect that?
Fleak: It was on the ground near the bottle on the ground.
Q: Did you ask for these things to be fingerprinted?
Fleak: I don’t remember?
Q: Is it part of your role to ask for things to be fingerprinted?
Fleak: No.
Q: So (what is your role?) you collect and put away? Maintain custody?
Fleak: In a complete death investigation we have more responsibilities than just collecting and logging evidence. (A coroner's investigator) performs a body investigation, notifies families, performs a death scene investigation... (She mentioned a few more tasks).
Q: On that day, did you notice the IV with the pole with the IV syringe?
Fleak: Yes I did.
Q: Why did you not take that into custody? (Objection, asked and answered. )
Did you notice on the table some juice bottles? They were labeled the Naked Juice company.
Were they empty?
Fleak: Yes.
(Missed question)
Fleak: I did not collect those juice bottles and I did not document what was in them.
Q: You left them there at the scene?
Fleak: Yes. They were on the table next to the bed.
Q: And the syringe, was it in reachable distance of the bed? (Objection! Sustained!)
[ed. note; here we go!] How far was the syringe from the bed?
Fleak: About 2 feet.
Q: And the syringe? (Miss answer)
Q: Bottle of Propofol, how far was that?
uke: We have to brace ourselves.