I want to introduce you to a man named Patrick Weber.

Let me turn this volume down just a little bit.

Go ahead, I'm sorry, good morning.

He's retired now, but he used to work in the office of a company that makes doors and windows.

He lives in a small community called Powell, Tennessee, just north of Knoxville and east

Oak Ridge, and he's been there for a long time.

That's where he raised his family, and that's where he lived in 2007.

Well, I had, of course, my wife and my son was just started going to UT, and my daughter

was in middle school, at that time.

Patrick's a native of East Tennessee, law abiding, upstanding, the kind of guy who wouldn't

try to duck out a jury duty.

So when he got a summons in the mail, he went where he was told to go, the federal courthouse

in Knoxville.

I was chosen, I guess, to be on a jury for a federal trial, which set place back in November

2007.

That was Laurie's case.

Patrick lived about an hour south of Scott County, and he was familiar with it.

He had passed through a few times for work.

Did you ever have any interactions with the Scott County Sheriff's Department?

No, no.

That's one thing that they'd ask us about was if we knew the defendant or the plaintiff,

and of course I did not.

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