In a case that spans years and has mountains of discovery that must be poured through before you can even begin your own investigation into the case, the ability to multitask is absolutely critical.

In the early days of the Garcia case, when the discovery began flowing in and the review of

the thousands and thousands of pages of documents was underway.

The discussion regarding which motions needed to be filed was in full effect.

Ali and my father drafted a vast majority of the motions in the case, and the motion work in this case was monumental.

Ali's work, her drafting of the motions,

I believe, would become one of the primary reasons

that the county attorney's office

was so very desperate to get her off the case. They feared her, plain and simple.

Whilst all that is happening, we are scouring through police reports, which are instrumental in determining

whether there are constitutional issues present in terms of how law enforcement conducted

itself during the investigation, which could require us to file

motions and additionally we are plowing through the discovery in an attempt to uncover interesting or contradictory facts,

helpful witnesses, or lines of investigation that we believe law enforcement abandoned too early or did not investigate at all, and we

noted for later use. Now if you all remember back at some point in this odyssey that we call the Garcia case, that there was a dancer named Cecilia Hoffman who made a statement to law enforcement that Anthony Garcia, who was once one of her regulars at the club, had made

an admission to her in an effort to impress her. That statement was that he had killed a young boy and an old lady.

Now, we of course were taken by great surprise by the statement and it immediately became

critical that we interview this witness ourselves in order to try and determine the veracity of Miss Hoffman statement.

I've discussed in the past the difficulty in getting the state's witnesses to talk to us during our investigation, pre-trial.

Because the typical response when we give them a call out of the blue or just show up at the door with our private investigator is,

hold on. They then go and call the prosecutor who tells them that they don't have to speak with us, which

is absolutely true, but frustrating nonetheless, as it leaves us in the unenviable position of having to cross-examine these witnesses at trial

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