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Camp site media. I had your leisure counsel.

Good morning, Ms. Smith.

Ms. Smith. Could you please take your name for the record?

Christie Schmidt, S-C-H-M-I-T-T.

Okay, thank you.

Ms. Smith, are you employed?

Yes.

And what is your job?

I'm a male carrier for the Indianapolis Star Tribune.

Not long ago, I sat in a classroom at the University of San Francisco's law school

watching a group of law students stage their own version of Leon Benson's trial.

The setting was a mock courtroom with a jury box and a

witness stand and the same harsh lighting that you find in every actual courtroom.

Same overhead glare that makes everyone look like they haven't slept for weeks.

On this afternoon, Laura was playing Christie Schmet, the prosecution's star eyewitness in the case.

Charlie, Laura's staff attorney and close colleague, was the judge.

And the student you're hearing is playing Leon's attorney.

A highly competent, aggressive, and dogged version of Leon's attorney, I'll add, which is more than Leon actually God.

And then what happened after you saw the man by the car?

I went back to filling the newspaper in the newspaper box.

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