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CITY: IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE
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2 Noticeoffiral Approval
Re Use Permit 2005 -018
FURY REVOCATION HEARING
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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008
3 Permit to Conduct Live
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EnRttaimmn June 15,2007
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA
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4 Cafe Douce Permit, 7 -2 -07
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5 California Department ofAkoholie
10:30 a.m.
Beverage Control License Query
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System Smm®ry, 24-08
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6 Site Plan for Hambmger Mary's
(3 pages) (withdrawn)
HEARING RE "THE FURY" taken at 3300 Newport
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7 Fury Tenant Improvement by TJ
Boulevard, Newport Beach, California, commencing at
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Design drawings
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8 Memo to Aaron Harp from Shamon
10:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 15, 2008, before
Levin re: Fury Rok &Rol Sushi
NANCI L. GRUBE, CSR No. 3446.
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Lounge Code Enforcement Tasks,
11 -15 -07
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THOMAS W. ALLEN, HEARING OFFICER- ptlaw@sbeglobal.net
BA Copyofphotograph taken
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11 -15 -2007 of
STEPHEN JAMIESON, ATTORNEY FOR 'THE FURY"
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BE Copy ofphotograph taken
JUNE AB.I N, ATTORNEY FOR THE CITYjailinloawanomeys.com
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BD Copy ofphotograph taken
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BE Copy oftbologreph taken
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11 -15 -2007 ofear, license
plate. m bar 4KEGG315
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8F Copy ofphotagraph taken
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CITY: mIa1TITCAnory EVIDENCE
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9 Mem9m Aaron Hmp 6om Sharvwn
Levmre Fury Rok &Rol Suck
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CITYS WITNESSES
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Lounge Code Fmfsve enl Tasks,
125 -07
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DIRECT CROSS REDIRECT RECROSS ARBITRATO
9A Copyof0tow ro htakam
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98 II -29 -2007 afrats,license
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plate nuraW4KEGG315 end 3KTS073
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KRIST7 PARKER
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139 159 217
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9D 11- 29- 2007d.1icense
plare number 6AFS664 and 5EM720
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DOUGLAS WILLIAM JONES
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222 234 292 295
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Levin r. Fury Rd: &Rol Susk
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DAVID STARK
LP"rge Ook lintmenem Tusks,
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297 305 320
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Ion Hof homograph tA.
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ELIJAH HAWARD
1-30-2007(sic)ofausjicense
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plahnumberaKEGG315aN FSM4
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324 329 344 345
pates Pttrottug
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108 Copy ofplwtowspntakm
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130.2007 (sir) of. liceme
plate number SPBM8145 a el3RYA634
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10C Copy of plarogrnph taken
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1.311 -2007 (sic) of care, liceme
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too Copyofphotagrephtaken
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t -30-2 (sw) ot`=, lioaae
1 Hamburger Mary's Bar and
pke.umber SPBMA14and5 742
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Grille Vicinity Map for
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4221 Dolphin Striker Way
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number 68CF9485, 6AFS664,
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Fury Even ti&M
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CITY: IDENTIFICATION E TDENCE
(February to May)
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CITY: IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE
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1 -30 -2007 (sic) ofcaa, license
Use Permit 3162
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Deparbneat Supplemem al
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plate number 6101493 and 6X 13163
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Report Overcrowding Citation,
"File Copy" stamped on it
sad two other cars
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DR No 08 -873
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1 -17 -08
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1- 30.2007(sic)ofcm, lions,
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Department Tile 20
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plate amber 6BCE948 (due,
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Zoning Violation,
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photographs oflicense plate)
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DR no. 08-01078
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1014 Copyofpbran raphtaken
handwriting "used for
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1- 30-2007 (sic) of.,& license
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Asaviala as Quarterly
Department Title 20
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place number 3XMZ501, 6Z07493,
Crass Sala ofAkehd For
Fury Rok & Rd Sushi Low c
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Zoning Violation,
6BCE948 and 3RYA634
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DR No. 08.02232
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41F Nod" of Public Hearing,
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sale Dead 141 -0710 1 -314,9
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1- 30- 20o7(sic) ofcam, license
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Department Arrest
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plate ...her 5YTG742, 5DM3958,
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Report, DR No. 07 -7602
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6X13163 and 4DZT513
4117 P.Mc Notice
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Doag)pps&omDew.
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1W Copy ofp1mingapt, talk.
Dave Starkre Fury,lo.t907
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1.30 -2007 (sic) of., license
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D,pammtenl Amen
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plate number 5PBM814
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Repom DR No. 074809
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EXHIBITS
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RokmNRolsushi Lange
2008 New Year's Celeberde.
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28 Nrwpwt Beach Ponce 231
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Department Battery
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12 Advertisement been
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1 Use Permit No. 3612
on a Police Officer,
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www.sienuemerlaioment.com
2 Use Perrot No. 2005 -018
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DR No. 07 -9066
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13 Copyofadeemsementre0ecting
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4 Cafe Dance Permit
Thursday Nights Club Eclipse at
Depemment Arrest
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Fary Rok .'Rol Sushi Lounge
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Report. DR No. 07-9067
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14 MySpace advcltisement for Fury
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Lounge
Depamment Arrest
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Report, DR No. 07 -9068
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Ticket Triangle reflecting
Depamnenl Arrest
The Sociel Group tickets
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Report, OR No. 08 -S72
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(February, w May)
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Department Arrest
Ticket Triangle reflecting
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Report, DR No. 084,1141
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Fury Even ti&M
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Brian Sehillim from Shannon
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Levi re: Violation of
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Use Permit 3162
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rematin, The social Gary
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41A Avery mailing list with
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"File Copy" stamped on it
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41B Notice of Public Hearing,
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41C Notice of Public Hearing,
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handwriting "used for
wMi�hael l'IwofBamrd &
mailing 2 -27 -2008 and 4 -4-2008
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Asaviala as Quarterly
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Crass Sala ofAkehd For
Fury Rok & Rd Sushi Low c
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gne pals (2)
Odn RoccliMthg
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41F Nod" of Public Hearing,
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sale Dead 141 -0710 1 -314,9
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M Daily Caaolidawsyalan
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Sala Detmi 10.1 -07 m 16JI -OB
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4117 P.Mc Notice
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Doag)pps&omDew.
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Dave Starkre Fury,lo.t907
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lot showing dumpster
27 es Ricca, 211 302
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43 Frly lam nigh norm
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DEmAry
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FURY: IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE
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Depmpma Title 20 Living
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1 Use Permit No. 3612
Violation, DR no 07 -11979
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2 Use Perrot No. 2005 -018
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3 Live Entertainment Permit
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Denartnaa Ti[ @70 Zativ,
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4 Cafe Dance Permit
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Section 1.08.055
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Section 5.004.170
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given
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Section 5.28.030
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section 5.29.035
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section 5.28.040
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March 2ooa
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of Aleshim & Wynder for the City of Newport Beach.
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Secfion 5.28.060
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EXHIBFFS
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Section 5.32.040
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ARBITRATOR: IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE
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Section
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Certain Facts
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xa Dining OutAmdere Fury
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MR.JAMtF.SON: Yes.
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section 5.96.040
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from June Ailin dated 4.9 -08
Section 5.32.010
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for Use at Revocation Hearing
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MR. JAM�SDN: To my knowledge, Sir, the
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Section 10.50.020
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Ridgeway
involvement of Mr. Rid is that he is the landowner
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Section 20.05.050
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of the premises. He is not represented by me. As far
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as I know, he is not represented by counsel in this
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proceeding, and he has -- there was a notice issue that
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Section 20.69.060
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Section 20.82.060
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THE HEARING OFFICER: On the record. My dame is
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Thomas W. Allen, and I've been assigned by the City as
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the Newport heart officer to consider the revocation
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Code section 33038
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matter commenced by the City involving the Fury Rok and
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Rol Sushi Lounge.
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The date is April 15th, 10:30 am We have
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continued this hearing commenced this morning from March
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5th. Let's see, may we have appearances for the record,
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Fury," Dining on the Edge.
oC Neat estinstion
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please?
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The ag z in orange coast
The Magazine of0ange County
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MS. AILIN: Certainly. June Ailin of the law firm
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March 2ooa
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of Aleshim & Wynder for the City of Newport Beach.
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25nd
nenphsofpre andFintenar
andearaiF. of Fan and Food
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MR.JAMIESON: And Stephen Jamieson, Solomon,
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served at Fury
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Saltsman & Jamieson for the respondent.
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and Alcohol Sales
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Mr. Jamieson, you represent
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the Fury entity and the two individuals that are the
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Ovavlew for Fury Rok& Rol
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licensees here?
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MR.JAMtF.SON: Yes.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: What is the status of
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Mr. Ridgeways representation and participation in this
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neuter, to you knowledge?
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and hereby ifnoccurs and
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MR. JAM�SDN: To my knowledge, Sir, the
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Ridgeway
involvement of Mr. Rid is that he is the landowner
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of the premises. He is not represented by me. As far
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as I know, he is not represented by counsel in this
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proceeding, and he has -- there was a notice issue that
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didn't have that information. We talked about it. The
hearing officer indicated that the hearing officer
intended to have that, and then it was revised, but 1
realized when I was getting ready last night I had two
different versions, so I just wanted to make sure that
the one that is used here today is, in fact, the one
that we --
THE HEARING OFFICER: The one that we handed out
today is the one -- yes, and I believe there was that
modification as a result of the March 51h hearing.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you very much.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Todays procedure provides
that the city bears the burden to demonstrate by a
preponderance of the evidence the basis for the
revocation, and the City will proceed with its
presentation today first, and the record of the hearing
will proceed as a normal covet proceeding.
Insofar as the exhibits are concerned, we do
have a stipulation as I understand it that isn't copied
yet, but nevertheless does refer to a number of exhibits
that were exchanged and submitted to me. Can we
identi fy what ones those are that are already or agreed
to be admitted?
MS. AILIN: Exhibit 1, I guess I should say C1 —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Yes.
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MS. AILIN: Exhibit Cl, C2, C3, C4, C5, C20, C21,
F22.
MR. JAMIESON: Excuse me. On C20 and C21 it also
includes Furys Exhibit 22.
MS. AILIN: You are correct, F22, I believe I just
said that.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Uh -huh.
MS. AILIN: C22, F27, C24 as to authenticity is a
true and correct copy of reports provided to the City by
Fury and C25 as to authenticity as copies of reports
provided to the City by Fury.
MR. JAMIESON; And if I may, the stipulation that
Miss Ailin was just reading from reflects that as to C24
and C25, the last sentence of each reference is deleted
from the stipulation -- well, let me make sure it's
clear. As to C24 the last sentence is deleted from the
proposed stipulation, and in C25 the last two sentences
are deleted.
MS. ALLIN: I don't believe Mr. Allen actually has
a copy of this stipulation in any form. You and I
haven't worked it out, so I have not given him a copy.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's all right I was
primarily interested in whether we had some exhibits
that we would not have to go through introduction as we
proceed this morning, and it sounds like there will be.
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was brought up prior to today's proceeding, and to my
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knowledge, he has not been -- as the landlord or the
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landlord itself has not been adequately noticed. 1 did
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look at the documents that were faxed to me or scanned
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to me by Miss Ailin, and I don't think that that
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reflects that he was as landlord adequately noticed.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: I understand. And he was
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present at the February 21 planning commission meeting,
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and he was present here this naming. And so as long as
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that's on the record, then a determination can be made
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at some future time as to whether he waived his right to
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participate or otherwise. But in any event, you do not
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represent him; is that correct?
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MR. JAMIESON: I do not represent him, and
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Mr. Ridgeway - -1 don't remember if he was here on the
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21st of February or not.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: The record -- the transcript
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of that planning commission hearing depicts him as being
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present and talking.
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MR. JAMIESON: Okay. And also so that the record
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is clear, Mr. Ridgeway is not here now. He is not here
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at the time of this hearing. Mr. Ridgeway is as the
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hearing officer indicated was walking around the counsel :
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chambers here earlier this morning just before we j
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started this hearing, but he is not here now for this
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THE HEARING OFFICER: 721W adopted hearing
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procedures for this hearing. We have a two-page
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document that's entitled Hearing Procedures, City of
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Newport Beach and Fury Rok and Rol Sushi Lounge March
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2008, and those will be the guiding principles for the
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conduct of this hearing. We probably should mark these
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as A -1 inasmuch as we — and for the record these only
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have been changed to reflect the date of the continuance
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that I had put in earlier.
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MR. JAMIESON: Mr. Allen, if I could just inquire,
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there was a heating procedure document that looked
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similar to this that came out really in two different
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versions. The version that I understand is the one that
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we are using now reflects at least in one particular
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subparagraph 1.20(d)2 that hearsay evidence may be used
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for the purpose of supplementing or explaining other
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evidence, but over time the objection shall not be
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sufficient in itself to support a finding unless it
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would be admissible over objections of civil action, and
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there may be some other changes, too. I just want to
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make sure were using the same one.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Is that a change from what
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what we saw before?
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MR. JAMIESON: The original one that came out
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didn't have that information. We talked about it. The
hearing officer indicated that the hearing officer
intended to have that, and then it was revised, but 1
realized when I was getting ready last night I had two
different versions, so I just wanted to make sure that
the one that is used here today is, in fact, the one
that we --
THE HEARING OFFICER: The one that we handed out
today is the one -- yes, and I believe there was that
modification as a result of the March 51h hearing.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you very much.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Todays procedure provides
that the city bears the burden to demonstrate by a
preponderance of the evidence the basis for the
revocation, and the City will proceed with its
presentation today first, and the record of the hearing
will proceed as a normal covet proceeding.
Insofar as the exhibits are concerned, we do
have a stipulation as I understand it that isn't copied
yet, but nevertheless does refer to a number of exhibits
that were exchanged and submitted to me. Can we
identi fy what ones those are that are already or agreed
to be admitted?
MS. AILIN: Exhibit 1, I guess I should say C1 —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Yes.
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MS. AILIN: Exhibit Cl, C2, C3, C4, C5, C20, C21,
F22.
MR. JAMIESON: Excuse me. On C20 and C21 it also
includes Furys Exhibit 22.
MS. AILIN: You are correct, F22, I believe I just
said that.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Uh -huh.
MS. AILIN: C22, F27, C24 as to authenticity is a
true and correct copy of reports provided to the City by
Fury and C25 as to authenticity as copies of reports
provided to the City by Fury.
MR. JAMIESON; And if I may, the stipulation that
Miss Ailin was just reading from reflects that as to C24
and C25, the last sentence of each reference is deleted
from the stipulation -- well, let me make sure it's
clear. As to C24 the last sentence is deleted from the
proposed stipulation, and in C25 the last two sentences
are deleted.
MS. ALLIN: I don't believe Mr. Allen actually has
a copy of this stipulation in any form. You and I
haven't worked it out, so I have not given him a copy.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's all right I was
primarily interested in whether we had some exhibits
that we would not have to go through introduction as we
proceed this morning, and it sounds like there will be.
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MR. JAMIESON: So down at the bottom of Exhibit 24
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MR. JAMIESON: My thought would be, my suggestion
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and Exhibit 25 referenced in the documents just handed
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would be that we do have a site visit. I think it would
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to you, that has not been redacted and changed, but I
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be helpful to see the interior of it because the
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think it's easy to indicate there that the last sentence
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interior, I think, looks substantially different than
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and the last two sentences of both of those were not
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just the outside, and its different in temps of its
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agreed to.
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decor and location and so forth in some respects than
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THE HEARING OFFICER: And there s a stipulation as
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what it might have been in the past. Whether or not
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to the facts stated in the commencement, essentially the
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that's done today or on Friday or at some other point
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statement that Miss Ailin placed in her hearing brief?
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before it's completed, before this hearing is completed,
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MR. JAMIESON: In some ways, yes. In some ways,
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An open to whatever the hearing officer would like to
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no. Perhaps we can just hand the hearing officer the
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do.
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stipulation now so he can see what it is.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: All right. If that's --
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MS. AILIN: That's fine.
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Miss Ailin?
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MR. JAMIESON: Is this already signed?
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MS. A11JN: 1 don't think a site visit is
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MS. AILIN: Yes.
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meaningful particularly if it's a site visit during the
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MR. JAMIESON: Mr. Allen, I'm going to hand you
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day when the establishment is essentially empty because
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instead the actual one that has been signed and changed
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its very easy, knowing that there is going to be a site
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so that you can see what it is we have acmally agreed
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visit, to put chairs where they are supposed to be,
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to.
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arrange the place to look like a restaurant as opposed
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THE HEARING OFFICER: So the basics regarding the
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to a bar or a nightclub and make it appear that that's
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case have been stipulated to. That is the location, the
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what it is. I think the only time a site visit could be
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address, the size of the property, the building, the use
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meaningful would be sometime between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00
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permit applicable to it, occupancy and dates regarding
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a.m. on a Friday or a Saturday night when the
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commencement of operation.
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establishment is operating normally without knowledge of
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the fact that there is a site visit going on. It's just
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too easy under the circumstances to -- for the limited
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purpose of a site visit make this establishment appear
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keep it.
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to be what its supposed to be, which is restaurant as
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opposed to what it really functions as, which is a bar
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was marked for identification and is
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or other nightclub.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Let's do this: Let's not do
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the site visit pursuant to a plan we adopt now. If as
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today has been continued from March 5th, and we then
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the hearing proceeds we fund that we are simply unable
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will proceed through today and then commence again on
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to grasp or understand the nature of the evidence
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Friday, April 18 at 11:00 a.m., and then at — on April
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because we don t understand the physical site, then we
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can revisit the issue.
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be determined, if necessary.
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At the March 5th hearing the parties agreed
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Mr. Jamieson has requested a site visit by
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that there would be an exclusion of witnesses except for
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counsel and me. 1 do not feel that a site visit is
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counsel, reporter and, I believe, one person to be
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necessary for my purposes. I'm very familiar with the
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present for each side. Is that still your desire?
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area, my office was close to there for many years. I
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MR. JAMIESON: Yes.
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have not seen the building either inside or outside
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Have you each designated a
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since it became the Fury, but I nevertheless am
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person that you would have be present as your assistant
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comfortable between the preliminary evidence that I've
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representative or otherwise?
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seen here that I'm aware enough of the physical plan to
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MR. JAMIESON: On the Fury side the parry
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know what we are talking about, but I'm certainly
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representative will be David Gonzalez who's present here
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willing to participate in a site visit if we can get it
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today.
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done on or prior to April the 22nd, so if you want to
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MS. ARJN: And on the City side the party
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discuss that now, that's fine or wait, either way you
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representative will be Kristi Parker from the city
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prefer.
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person or entity that is or will no longer be in
possession and operation of the premises, then a
proceeding to revoke a conditional use permit that mas
with the land on the basis of such things would be
ultimately inappropriate, without legal foundation or
basis, and overall it would serve everyone's best
interest, I believe, to defer this matter.
This is something that I brought up prior to
going on the record today because I wanted counsel and
the hearing officer to be aware of what I was going to
be requesting and why, and for the purpose of the
record, I'm requesting it formally at this time.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Miss Ailm, do you wish to
respond?
MS. AE.IN: Yes, and I have to admit hike
Mr. Jamieson I have a habit of saying Your Honor when
I'm in this setting, so I will -- I will probably slip
into that as well.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I understand that, and
whatever language you use within bounds is fnc with
me.
MS. AUN: I was aware that there were discussions
going on yesterday about a possible resolution involving
a sale of Fury. The only thing I have been authorized
to do is proceed with this hearing. I have no authority
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to agree to continue it. The city attorney has not
indicated to me that she has any desire that this
hearing be continued.
There are also some unanswered questions in
Mr. Jamieson's request for the continuance. He has not
told us anything about what the tinting of transfer of
ownership would be, whether there would be an escrow,
how quickly the issue would be resolved, even if the
transaction were to go forward.
Mr. Jamieson also appears to believe that the
issue is that Fury has been a nuisance, and while that
may, in fact, be the case, the more central issue is
that the establishment has not been complying with the
conditions of the use permit. That's really the focus
of the hearing and I don't know that that necessarily
will change if there is a change of ownership. So I
believe we should proceed with the hearing today.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Right. I feel that we need
to proceed today. If we had the luxury of unlimited
time, then we could listen to more people, because
despite the fact that Mr. Jamieson is seemingly aware of
certain negotiations and discussions that are going on,
no one else has come in here to discuss this with us.
As I said, Mr. Ridgeway represented himself to
be the owner of the property on the record, and he was
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that she was going to testify to with the stipulation
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hereafter as Your Honor once in a while. I tend to fall
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Fury and a potential new buyer that has entered into a
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contract with Fury to purchase the business. And it
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appears, from various meetings, that I have been made
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aware of with respect to the City and the new buyer and
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the various people involved that took place yesterday
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that it would be a benefit to all parties involved and
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appropriate use of our time to try and address those
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issues before proceeding with the matter, that deferring
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it until Friday would allow &at to occur, and perhaps
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most importantly from a legal standpoint since a good
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deal of this hearing is based upon the idea that the
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Fury has been a nuisance in some way and without
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conceding that fact to be true, because we vehemently
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dispute that fact to be true, if there is a -- if the
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person or entity that is or will no longer be in
possession and operation of the premises, then a
proceeding to revoke a conditional use permit that mas
with the land on the basis of such things would be
ultimately inappropriate, without legal foundation or
basis, and overall it would serve everyone's best
interest, I believe, to defer this matter.
This is something that I brought up prior to
going on the record today because I wanted counsel and
the hearing officer to be aware of what I was going to
be requesting and why, and for the purpose of the
record, I'm requesting it formally at this time.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Miss Ailm, do you wish to
respond?
MS. AE.IN: Yes, and I have to admit hike
Mr. Jamieson I have a habit of saying Your Honor when
I'm in this setting, so I will -- I will probably slip
into that as well.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I understand that, and
whatever language you use within bounds is fnc with
me.
MS. AUN: I was aware that there were discussions
going on yesterday about a possible resolution involving
a sale of Fury. The only thing I have been authorized
to do is proceed with this hearing. I have no authority
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to agree to continue it. The city attorney has not
indicated to me that she has any desire that this
hearing be continued.
There are also some unanswered questions in
Mr. Jamieson's request for the continuance. He has not
told us anything about what the tinting of transfer of
ownership would be, whether there would be an escrow,
how quickly the issue would be resolved, even if the
transaction were to go forward.
Mr. Jamieson also appears to believe that the
issue is that Fury has been a nuisance, and while that
may, in fact, be the case, the more central issue is
that the establishment has not been complying with the
conditions of the use permit. That's really the focus
of the hearing and I don't know that that necessarily
will change if there is a change of ownership. So I
believe we should proceed with the hearing today.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Right. I feel that we need
to proceed today. If we had the luxury of unlimited
time, then we could listen to more people, because
despite the fact that Mr. Jamieson is seemingly aware of
certain negotiations and discussions that are going on,
no one else has come in here to discuss this with us.
As I said, Mr. Ridgeway represented himself to
be the owner of the property on the record, and he was
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things.
MS. AILIN: We had an exchange of a -mails about
this notice issue, and it was in response to that
exchange of e-mails that I requested information from
the planning department staff about what notices were
given. 1 provided that information by a -nail. I asked
if this is still an issue, let me know, and I will see
if there are additional documents. I will find someone
who can testify about what notice was given, and I
requested an opportunity to amend my witness list to do
that. I received no indication from Mr. Jamieson in
response to that e-mail that he still had an objection
and that I should go look for more documents and go find
a witness to testify about what notice was given.
Therefore, I have not prepared to do that.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay. The way I see this,
I'm going to take as true the documents you did provide
to us, and those need to be made a part of the record,
and I do not have them at this point -- I mean, I have
them, but 1 don't have them where I can reach out and
grab them, but would you please obtain them and then we
will submit them?
My observation is that if Mr. Ridgeway is the
landowner, which it appears that is the case, and there
must be another person also in sonic business
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relationship with him to whom notice was also mailed,
Hawkins or something like that comes to mind
MR. JAMIESON: I think it's Whitney.
MS. AR,IN: Whitney.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Whitney.
MR. JAMIESON: I think is the other name.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That there was written noti
sent. Whether there are due process issues with that
not having been received or signatures that were on
those documents indicating that Mr. Ridgeway received
them, were forged or were for some other document, I
don't know, but I also know by reading the transcript of
the planning commission hearing that Mr. Ridgeway was
present at that time. He was here when we had our March
5th hearing, introduced himself to me off the record as
being the landowner, and he was here this morning. So
there just does not seem to be any notice issue with
respect to Mr. Ridgeway that would somehow cause him to
be able to convince a court in the future that he did
not become aware of these proceedings.
At risk of speculating, there may be issues
between Fury and Mr. Ridgeway of a contractual nature
that are at the heart of the contention by you,
Mr. Jamieson, but I don't know that but whatever
Mr. Ridgeway could do, he certainly had an opportunity
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here earlier and is not here now, and the city attorney
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heard from her, so that being said, and most
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importantly, given the time constraints that the
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planning commission has imposed on us to conclude these
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hearings, 1 see there is no alternative but to proceed.
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issue of notice, adequate notice, notice whatsoever to
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the landowner should probably be broached at this point
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in time since it is our contention that because a
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proceeding to revoke the conditional use permit is a
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proceeding to revoke a vested property interest that not
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only is one of an estate holder which is Fury by virtue
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of its lease and by virtue of its operation, that Fury
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has all the constitutional protections that we have
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argued throughout this proceeding, but also the
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landowner who owns this land, whose land is encumbered
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by the conditional use permit, whose land will be
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detrimentally valued and affected if, in fact, there is
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a change to the conditional use permit, a suspension to
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it or a revocation, he is entitled to adequate legal
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the proceeding, and as to it affecting Fury, it would
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and of itself, probably not enforceable. I'm not
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landlord's interest, but I am objecting on the basis
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proceeding; and therefore, it should not go forward and,
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which is February 21. So 1 don't know how that proves
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that the landlord got adequate notice for the January
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2l st hearing, which was the second one before the
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planning commission because both of the cards at least
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that I saw were subsequent to February 21.
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things.
MS. AILIN: We had an exchange of a -mails about
this notice issue, and it was in response to that
exchange of e-mails that I requested information from
the planning department staff about what notices were
given. 1 provided that information by a -nail. I asked
if this is still an issue, let me know, and I will see
if there are additional documents. I will find someone
who can testify about what notice was given, and I
requested an opportunity to amend my witness list to do
that. I received no indication from Mr. Jamieson in
response to that e-mail that he still had an objection
and that I should go look for more documents and go find
a witness to testify about what notice was given.
Therefore, I have not prepared to do that.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay. The way I see this,
I'm going to take as true the documents you did provide
to us, and those need to be made a part of the record,
and I do not have them at this point -- I mean, I have
them, but 1 don't have them where I can reach out and
grab them, but would you please obtain them and then we
will submit them?
My observation is that if Mr. Ridgeway is the
landowner, which it appears that is the case, and there
must be another person also in sonic business
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relationship with him to whom notice was also mailed,
Hawkins or something like that comes to mind
MR. JAMIESON: I think it's Whitney.
MS. AR,IN: Whitney.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Whitney.
MR. JAMIESON: I think is the other name.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That there was written noti
sent. Whether there are due process issues with that
not having been received or signatures that were on
those documents indicating that Mr. Ridgeway received
them, were forged or were for some other document, I
don't know, but I also know by reading the transcript of
the planning commission hearing that Mr. Ridgeway was
present at that time. He was here when we had our March
5th hearing, introduced himself to me off the record as
being the landowner, and he was here this morning. So
there just does not seem to be any notice issue with
respect to Mr. Ridgeway that would somehow cause him to
be able to convince a court in the future that he did
not become aware of these proceedings.
At risk of speculating, there may be issues
between Fury and Mr. Ridgeway of a contractual nature
that are at the heart of the contention by you,
Mr. Jamieson, but I don't know that but whatever
Mr. Ridgeway could do, he certainly had an opportunity
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my understanding is that there was not adequate notice
given.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Given that we know
Mr. Ridgeway has been present and is aware of these --
of this situation, and even if he -- even if he weren't,
how does that affect your client's position with respect
to the City's commencement of the revocation
proceedings?
MR. JAMIESON: Because the issue here is whether or
not the conditional use permit itself can be revoked.
The issue is not whether or not Fury can utilize the
conditional use permit. So if the proceeding is to
revoke the conditional use permit and that conditional
use permit is attached to the property, is an asset of
the property, is a constitutionally vested property
interest of those that have an interest in that
property, then the CUP cannot be revoked unless adequate
notice is given to all persons and parties that have
that interest, not just one, not just some. And again,
it's the difference between saying Fury can't use that
CUP versus that CUP gets revoked and nobody can use it.
The landowner that has the benefit and is encumbered by
the CUP certainly has a right to be adequately noticed,
and if, in fact, the landowner is not, then the
conditional use permit itself cannot be revoked or
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otherwise changed or modified, et cetera. There is a
flaw in that proceeding.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I understand.
MR. JAMIESON: 'Blank you.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Then that motion is denied.
Let us — do you have any other motions?
MR. JAMIESON: No, thank you.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Then let's proceed with our
testimony commencing with the City, and if you have an
opening statement, please do so.
MR. JAMIESON: Excuse me. Just one last thing.
Does the court want what I'm holding here, which is that
five -page document?
MS. AII.IN: You know, I have an issue with that for
the record only in that Mr. Jamieson engages in the
environmentally conscious practice of printing his
e-mail on scrap paper, and I — as much as I admire his
decision to do that, I really don t want the extraneous
material on the backs of those pages ending up somehow
being part of the record.
MR. JAMIESON: That's fine, just so long -- and I
appreciate that, the green comment. That's fine so long
as we just are offering the five -page document --
THE HEARING OFFICER: The notices need to be made i
part of the record, and if there is any supplemental
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record, I have a copy of the April -- the Wednesday
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hearing officer and to myself, and attached to that are
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the two cards that were reflecting -- and I would like
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to make sure that this entire document, which is a total
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of five pages be made part of the record because the
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cards themselves that we are all thinking about that we
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saw, those cards do not reflect the date that they were
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mailed. They do reflect the date that they were either
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signed for or stamped in at a post office, and the one
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for Ridgeway and Whiney reflects they were stamped in
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at Newport Beach Bay station March 3rd, 2008.
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supposed to go until March 3rd, but it also doesn't
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because we are all aware that if something is deposited
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and so forth. This doesn't say when it was sent or
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my understanding is that there was not adequate notice
given.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Given that we know
Mr. Ridgeway has been present and is aware of these --
of this situation, and even if he -- even if he weren't,
how does that affect your client's position with respect
to the City's commencement of the revocation
proceedings?
MR. JAMIESON: Because the issue here is whether or
not the conditional use permit itself can be revoked.
The issue is not whether or not Fury can utilize the
conditional use permit. So if the proceeding is to
revoke the conditional use permit and that conditional
use permit is attached to the property, is an asset of
the property, is a constitutionally vested property
interest of those that have an interest in that
property, then the CUP cannot be revoked unless adequate
notice is given to all persons and parties that have
that interest, not just one, not just some. And again,
it's the difference between saying Fury can't use that
CUP versus that CUP gets revoked and nobody can use it.
The landowner that has the benefit and is encumbered by
the CUP certainly has a right to be adequately noticed,
and if, in fact, the landowner is not, then the
conditional use permit itself cannot be revoked or
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otherwise changed or modified, et cetera. There is a
flaw in that proceeding.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I understand.
MR. JAMIESON: 'Blank you.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Then that motion is denied.
Let us — do you have any other motions?
MR. JAMIESON: No, thank you.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Then let's proceed with our
testimony commencing with the City, and if you have an
opening statement, please do so.
MR. JAMIESON: Excuse me. Just one last thing.
Does the court want what I'm holding here, which is that
five -page document?
MS. AII.IN: You know, I have an issue with that for
the record only in that Mr. Jamieson engages in the
environmentally conscious practice of printing his
e-mail on scrap paper, and I — as much as I admire his
decision to do that, I really don t want the extraneous
material on the backs of those pages ending up somehow
being part of the record.
MR. JAMIESON: That's fine, just so long -- and I
appreciate that, the green comment. That's fine so long
as we just are offering the five -page document --
THE HEARING OFFICER: The notices need to be made i
part of the record, and if there is any supplemental
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but the two cards that are reflected here don't reflect
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that that's what, in fact, was sent. And then finally,
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on the last page, that is a copy of a series of labels
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that apparently are used for the mailing list of
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interested parties here. At the bottom it's handwritten
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by somebody I don't know, but it's handwritten. It says
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"Used for Trailing 2- 27- 2008," and then there is another
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date, 4 -4 -2008. So that in itself would be -- would not
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indicate — none of that would indicate that there was
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sure that that is part of the record, and with respect
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to Miss Ailin's indication that she would have somebody
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else or some other documentation that might be
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available, I'm going to tell her and the hearing officer
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that if, in fact, there is something like that, I'm not
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my understanding is that there was not adequate notice
given.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Given that we know
Mr. Ridgeway has been present and is aware of these --
of this situation, and even if he -- even if he weren't,
how does that affect your client's position with respect
to the City's commencement of the revocation
proceedings?
MR. JAMIESON: Because the issue here is whether or
not the conditional use permit itself can be revoked.
The issue is not whether or not Fury can utilize the
conditional use permit. So if the proceeding is to
revoke the conditional use permit and that conditional
use permit is attached to the property, is an asset of
the property, is a constitutionally vested property
interest of those that have an interest in that
property, then the CUP cannot be revoked unless adequate
notice is given to all persons and parties that have
that interest, not just one, not just some. And again,
it's the difference between saying Fury can't use that
CUP versus that CUP gets revoked and nobody can use it.
The landowner that has the benefit and is encumbered by
the CUP certainly has a right to be adequately noticed,
and if, in fact, the landowner is not, then the
conditional use permit itself cannot be revoked or
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otherwise changed or modified, et cetera. There is a
flaw in that proceeding.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I understand.
MR. JAMIESON: 'Blank you.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Then that motion is denied.
Let us — do you have any other motions?
MR. JAMIESON: No, thank you.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Then let's proceed with our
testimony commencing with the City, and if you have an
opening statement, please do so.
MR. JAMIESON: Excuse me. Just one last thing.
Does the court want what I'm holding here, which is that
five -page document?
MS. AII.IN: You know, I have an issue with that for
the record only in that Mr. Jamieson engages in the
environmentally conscious practice of printing his
e-mail on scrap paper, and I — as much as I admire his
decision to do that, I really don t want the extraneous
material on the backs of those pages ending up somehow
being part of the record.
MR. JAMIESON: That's fine, just so long -- and I
appreciate that, the green comment. That's fine so long
as we just are offering the five -page document --
THE HEARING OFFICER: The notices need to be made i
part of the record, and if there is any supplemental
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Just a question, please.
When you say what you intend to prove is that it's
something else, do you have a description of what you
think it is based upon evidence well hear?
MS. AILIN: It's a but and a nightclub. It is not
a restaurant.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I see. Thank you.
MS. AILIN: And there actually are -- I believe
there is a specific definition in the commercial use
classifications in the Newport Beach Municipal Code in
section 20.05.05(0), which I believe a copy of that has
been provided to you, but if not, we can arrange to
provide one.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's 20.05.05(0)?
MS. AILIN: Yes. And in paragraph I -7 there is a
definition of bars and cocktail lounges, and in
paragraph K there are various definitions of eating and
drinking establishments, which is the closest thing to
the common term "restaurant" that is found in this
section.
THE HEARING OFFICER! Is there specific reference
there from the standpoint of it cannot or should not
pursuant to its permit become one of those identified
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things?
MS. AILIN: Well, in condition 20 it says, "The
approval of this use permit does not permit the premises
to operate as a bar, tavern, cocktail lounge, nightclub
or commercial recreation and entertainment use."
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you.
MS. AILIN: I believe we should start by swearing
Miss Parker as our first witness. Are we going to have
that done by the hearing officer or the court reporter?
THE HEARING OFFICER: The reporter is
professionally qualified to do that, I believe.
KRISn PARKER,
having been first duly administered an
oath in accordance with CCP 2094, was
examined and testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
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Q. Good morning, Miss Parker.
A. Good morning.
Q. Would you please state and spell your name for
the record.
A. Kristi Parker, K- r -i-s -W P- a- r- k -e-r.
Q. And how are you employed?
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Aril with that introduction, I would like to
call the City's first witness, Kristi Parker.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Just a question, please.
When you say what you intend to prove is that it's
something else, do you have a description of what you
think it is based upon evidence well hear?
MS. AILIN: It's a but and a nightclub. It is not
a restaurant.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I see. Thank you.
MS. AILIN: And there actually are -- I believe
there is a specific definition in the commercial use
classifications in the Newport Beach Municipal Code in
section 20.05.05(0), which I believe a copy of that has
been provided to you, but if not, we can arrange to
provide one.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's 20.05.05(0)?
MS. AILIN: Yes. And in paragraph I -7 there is a
definition of bars and cocktail lounges, and in
paragraph K there are various definitions of eating and
drinking establishments, which is the closest thing to
the common term "restaurant" that is found in this
section.
THE HEARING OFFICER! Is there specific reference
there from the standpoint of it cannot or should not
pursuant to its permit become one of those identified
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things?
MS. AILIN: Well, in condition 20 it says, "The
approval of this use permit does not permit the premises
to operate as a bar, tavern, cocktail lounge, nightclub
or commercial recreation and entertainment use."
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you.
MS. AILIN: I believe we should start by swearing
Miss Parker as our first witness. Are we going to have
that done by the hearing officer or the court reporter?
THE HEARING OFFICER: The reporter is
professionally qualified to do that, I believe.
KRISn PARKER,
having been first duly administered an
oath in accordance with CCP 2094, was
examined and testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
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Q. Good morning, Miss Parker.
A. Good morning.
Q. Would you please state and spell your name for
the record.
A. Kristi Parker, K- r -i-s -W P- a- r- k -e-r.
Q. And how are you employed?
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their business or some sort of interest, and people can
join your space as friends and view your pictures or
send you comments, and most people can view them unless
you set it to a private setting of some kind.
Q. And can you tell us specifically when on the
Internet you looked for information about Fury?
A. I searched through Google, and the first thing
that comes up when I searched through Google is Fury's
MySpace page, actually.
Q. So Fury has its own MySpace page?
A. Yes.
MR. JAMJESON: Objection; lacks foundation, move to
strike.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Which leads you to believe that it's Fury's
own MySpace page?
A. It's —can 1 refer to one of the exhibits?
Q. Sure.
A. Well, I don't believe there is an exhibit with
their MySpace page in there.
Q. Okay,
A. But Fury's MySpace page is called Fury. It
has a picture of their flaming dragon, and there are
pictures of Brian Schillizzi and his wife, and inside of
the restaurant, outside the restaurant, pictures of
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MR. JAMIESON: Ion going to object. ton sorry.
I'm going to object again. Move to strike, lacks
foundation, lacks relevance, calls for hearsay.
MS. AILIN: Well, the witness is describing what
she saw.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Yes?
MS, AILIN: She is not describing any oral
statement made outside of this room.
MR. JAMIESON: It doesn't have to be an oral
statement. The witness is attributing something that
she says she saw on an Internet -- that she attributes
to ownership by Fury. She has no foundation to be able
to state that and to describe what she has seen at a
time when she has not specified as to when she looked or
what it was or we can't see what it is that she looked
at. It suffers from a lack of foundation, calls for
hearsay. Its speculative. Ifs irrelevant, and it
should be stricken.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What is the purpose of this
line of questioning with respect to what the witness
knows about the Internet and Fury^
MS. AR-IN: Irs an introduction to various
exhibits that An going to have the witness testify
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their business or some sort of interest, and people can
join your space as friends and view your pictures or
send you comments, and most people can view them unless
you set it to a private setting of some kind.
Q. And can you tell us specifically when on the
Internet you looked for information about Fury?
A. I searched through Google, and the first thing
that comes up when I searched through Google is Fury's
MySpace page, actually.
Q. So Fury has its own MySpace page?
A. Yes.
MR. JAMJESON: Objection; lacks foundation, move to
strike.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Which leads you to believe that it's Fury's
own MySpace page?
A. It's —can 1 refer to one of the exhibits?
Q. Sure.
A. Well, I don't believe there is an exhibit with
their MySpace page in there.
Q. Okay,
A. But Fury's MySpace page is called Fury. It
has a picture of their flaming dragon, and there are
pictures of Brian Schillizzi and his wife, and inside of
the restaurant, outside the restaurant, pictures of
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MR. JAMIESON: Ion going to object. ton sorry.
I'm going to object again. Move to strike, lacks
foundation, lacks relevance, calls for hearsay.
MS. AILIN: Well, the witness is describing what
she saw.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Yes?
MS, AILIN: She is not describing any oral
statement made outside of this room.
MR. JAMIESON: It doesn't have to be an oral
statement. The witness is attributing something that
she says she saw on an Internet -- that she attributes
to ownership by Fury. She has no foundation to be able
to state that and to describe what she has seen at a
time when she has not specified as to when she looked or
what it was or we can't see what it is that she looked
at. It suffers from a lack of foundation, calls for
hearsay. Its speculative. Ifs irrelevant, and it
should be stricken.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What is the purpose of this
line of questioning with respect to what the witness
knows about the Internet and Fury^
MS. AR-IN: Irs an introduction to various
exhibits that An going to have the witness testify
about.
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for hearsay, speculation.
THE WITNESS: I can restate that.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Would you please read back
the question and the answer?
MS. All JN: I can rephrase the question.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Ali right.
BY MS. AB-IN:
Q. What does The Social Group website appear to
be?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; calls far hearsay, lacks
foundation, relevance.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I believe —
MR- JAMIESON: And speculation.
THE HEARING OFFICER: 1 believe she can testify to
what she saw.
MR. JAMIESON: That wasn't the question, though.
THE HEARING OFFICER: The question was what does it
appear to be.
MR. JAMIESON: That requires editorialization that
requires what she believes it is depicting. She can say
what she saw at a particular time -- with all due
respect, she can say what she saw at a particular time.
She can describe what she saw potentially. I still
think that that suffers from a lack of foundation, but
at least ifs closer to what she actually saw. What it
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and that information, I think, suffers from all the
objections I have stated.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I agree, but she can testify
to what she saw, and if that satisfies the questioner,
then proceed.
THE WITNESS: On The Social Group's website I see
advertisement for Fury for Friday and Saturday nights.
This particular advertisement, Exhibit 11, is for the
New Years Eve party which has a bunch of names on it of
people who appear to be sponsoring the party.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. And you also —
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; move to strike, lacks
foundation, calls for speculation. The specific phrase
"appears to be sponsoring the party" is an
editorialization without any basis or foundation in
fact Move to strike.
THE HEARING OFFICER: We can derive that from
looking at the page, as I understand it, correct?
MR. JAMIESON: I don't see anything that says
sponsor. I don't see anything that says anything other
than it has some names of people and entities.
MS. AIL-IN: When you see a sign that says Coca Cola
you don't think that tells you that Coca Cola is
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THE WITNESS: I can restate that.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Would you please read back
the question and the answer?
MS. All JN: I can rephrase the question.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Ali right.
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Q. What does The Social Group website appear to
be?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; calls far hearsay, lacks
foundation, relevance.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I believe —
MR- JAMIESON: And speculation.
THE HEARING OFFICER: 1 believe she can testify to
what she saw.
MR. JAMIESON: That wasn't the question, though.
THE HEARING OFFICER: The question was what does it
appear to be.
MR. JAMIESON: That requires editorialization that
requires what she believes it is depicting. She can say
what she saw at a particular time -- with all due
respect, she can say what she saw at a particular time.
She can describe what she saw potentially. I still
think that that suffers from a lack of foundation, but
at least ifs closer to what she actually saw. What it
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and that information, I think, suffers from all the
objections I have stated.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I agree, but she can testify
to what she saw, and if that satisfies the questioner,
then proceed.
THE WITNESS: On The Social Group's website I see
advertisement for Fury for Friday and Saturday nights.
This particular advertisement, Exhibit 11, is for the
New Years Eve party which has a bunch of names on it of
people who appear to be sponsoring the party.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. And you also —
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; move to strike, lacks
foundation, calls for speculation. The specific phrase
"appears to be sponsoring the party" is an
editorialization without any basis or foundation in
fact Move to strike.
THE HEARING OFFICER: We can derive that from
looking at the page, as I understand it, correct?
MR. JAMIESON: I don't see anything that says
sponsor. I don't see anything that says anything other
than it has some names of people and entities.
MS. AIL-IN: When you see a sign that says Coca Cola
you don't think that tells you that Coca Cola is
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Q. And were they printed sometime around February
5th, 2008?
A. Yes.
Q. Over on the right -hand side of all three of
these pages it says over and over again "View Tickets."
Is that a location on the website where you can click on
that and go to the part of the website where you can
actually buy the tickets?
A. Yes.
Q. And did you actually click through thereto
see what you found when you did that?
A. Yes.
Q. And what did you rind when you did that?
A. They are selling the tickets for $20 apiece,
and the dates are specified on the site. The Social
Group sells tickets for Friday and Saturday nights at
Fury.
Q. And, Miss Parker, would you look at Exhibit 16
please and tell us what Exhibit 16 is.
A. Exhibit 16 is when you click on "view
tickets," that's the next link, actually. That's what
you view.
Q. So you chose one example of what you we when
you click through the place on the website where it says
"view tickets" as shown in Exhibit 15?
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A. That's correct. It shows general admission
presale tickets for $20.
Q. And would you please take a look at Exhibit 17
and could you explain to us what Exhibit 17 is?
A. Coast to Coast is another ticket broker
website that I'm familiar with, and you can locate it
through the Internet, and it also shows Social Group
events for Fury for events on Friday and Saturday nights
through May 2008.
Q. And so Exhibit 17 is also a copy of pages you
printed from the Internet?
A. It Is, on February 4th, 2008.
Q. And could you explain to us what the third
page in Exhibit 17 is?
A. The third page is the result of what happens
when you click on "find" on the right -hand side.
Q. So you are referring — I'm sorry. When you
say "find," you are referring to the previous two
pages —
A. Yes.
Q. — where over on the right -hand side it says
"find "?
A. Yes.
Q. And the third page is what you get when you
click on "rind "?
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Fury. The second page is printed from
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A. Yes.
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various other establishments.
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Q. And were they printed sometime around February
5th, 2008?
A. Yes.
Q. Over on the right -hand side of all three of
these pages it says over and over again "View Tickets."
Is that a location on the website where you can click on
that and go to the part of the website where you can
actually buy the tickets?
A. Yes.
Q. And did you actually click through thereto
see what you found when you did that?
A. Yes.
Q. And what did you rind when you did that?
A. They are selling the tickets for $20 apiece,
and the dates are specified on the site. The Social
Group sells tickets for Friday and Saturday nights at
Fury.
Q. And, Miss Parker, would you look at Exhibit 16
please and tell us what Exhibit 16 is.
A. Exhibit 16 is when you click on "view
tickets," that's the next link, actually. That's what
you view.
Q. So you chose one example of what you we when
you click through the place on the website where it says
"view tickets" as shown in Exhibit 15?
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A. That's correct. It shows general admission
presale tickets for $20.
Q. And would you please take a look at Exhibit 17
and could you explain to us what Exhibit 17 is?
A. Coast to Coast is another ticket broker
website that I'm familiar with, and you can locate it
through the Internet, and it also shows Social Group
events for Fury for events on Friday and Saturday nights
through May 2008.
Q. And so Exhibit 17 is also a copy of pages you
printed from the Internet?
A. It Is, on February 4th, 2008.
Q. And could you explain to us what the third
page in Exhibit 17 is?
A. The third page is the result of what happens
when you click on "find" on the right -hand side.
Q. So you are referring — I'm sorry. When you
say "find," you are referring to the previous two
pages —
A. Yes.
Q. — where over on the right -hand side it says
"find "?
A. Yes.
Q. And the third page is what you get when you
click on "rind "?
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to copy onto a disc?
A. Yes, one video in particular actually showed
when you were — It was one of the owners of the
operation and also showed their sign on the outside of
their establishment, an it could be definitely said that
that was their establishment.
Q. Approximately when did you locate that video
on the YouTube website?
A. Can I refer to my notes?
Q. Certainly.
A. I have a printout here that indicates December
12, 2007, it looks like here. That may not be the day
that I actually located it.
Q. So you think you might have located it before?
A. It was before the hearings, yes.
MR. JAMIESON: Your Honor, I would like to -- since
she has referred to notes that she has in her testimony
right now, I would like to see the note that she is
referring to.
THE WITNESS: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's an appropriate
request.
THE WITNESS: Ifs a printout of a scene.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
MR. JAMIESON: Tm going to want to refer to that
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BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Miss Parker, you said that you were able to
identify the exterior of the building Fury is located in
the YouTube video. Have you ever been inside Fury?
A. No, l have not.
Q. Have you shown this video to other city
personnel?
A. Yes.
Q. Who have you shown it to?
A. It was made part of the planning commission
public record on February 21st, second hearing. Is that
the correct date? I have to look at my notes for that
It was part of the planning commission second packet for
revocation proceedings, and the planning department
would have seen it, police officer personnel have seen
it The city attorney and the assistant city attorney
have seen it as well.
Q. Can you identify the police officers who have
seen it?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; relevance, move to
strike, nonresponsive.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled. Assuming you
personally know the police officers that saw it.
THE WITNESS: I personally know that
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noticing at the top the first two pages of Exhibit 18 it
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A. Yes.
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numbers in the lower right -hand corner appear to be the
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to copy onto a disc?
A. Yes, one video in particular actually showed
when you were — It was one of the owners of the
operation and also showed their sign on the outside of
their establishment, an it could be definitely said that
that was their establishment.
Q. Approximately when did you locate that video
on the YouTube website?
A. Can I refer to my notes?
Q. Certainly.
A. I have a printout here that indicates December
12, 2007, it looks like here. That may not be the day
that I actually located it.
Q. So you think you might have located it before?
A. It was before the hearings, yes.
MR. JAMIESON: Your Honor, I would like to -- since
she has referred to notes that she has in her testimony
right now, I would like to see the note that she is
referring to.
THE WITNESS: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's an appropriate
request.
THE WITNESS: Ifs a printout of a scene.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
MR. JAMIESON: Tm going to want to refer to that
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BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Miss Parker, you said that you were able to
identify the exterior of the building Fury is located in
the YouTube video. Have you ever been inside Fury?
A. No, l have not.
Q. Have you shown this video to other city
personnel?
A. Yes.
Q. Who have you shown it to?
A. It was made part of the planning commission
public record on February 21st, second hearing. Is that
the correct date? I have to look at my notes for that
It was part of the planning commission second packet for
revocation proceedings, and the planning department
would have seen it, police officer personnel have seen
it The city attorney and the assistant city attorney
have seen it as well.
Q. Can you identify the police officers who have
seen it?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; relevance, move to
strike, nonresponsive.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled. Assuming you
personally know the police officers that saw it.
THE WITNESS: I personally know that
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to copy onto a disc?
A. Yes, one video in particular actually showed
when you were — It was one of the owners of the
operation and also showed their sign on the outside of
their establishment, an it could be definitely said that
that was their establishment.
Q. Approximately when did you locate that video
on the YouTube website?
A. Can I refer to my notes?
Q. Certainly.
A. I have a printout here that indicates December
12, 2007, it looks like here. That may not be the day
that I actually located it.
Q. So you think you might have located it before?
A. It was before the hearings, yes.
MR. JAMIESON: Your Honor, I would like to -- since
she has referred to notes that she has in her testimony
right now, I would like to see the note that she is
referring to.
THE WITNESS: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's an appropriate
request.
THE WITNESS: Ifs a printout of a scene.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
MR. JAMIESON: Tm going to want to refer to that
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BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Miss Parker, you said that you were able to
identify the exterior of the building Fury is located in
the YouTube video. Have you ever been inside Fury?
A. No, l have not.
Q. Have you shown this video to other city
personnel?
A. Yes.
Q. Who have you shown it to?
A. It was made part of the planning commission
public record on February 21st, second hearing. Is that
the correct date? I have to look at my notes for that
It was part of the planning commission second packet for
revocation proceedings, and the planning department
would have seen it, police officer personnel have seen
it The city attorney and the assistant city attorney
have seen it as well.
Q. Can you identify the police officers who have
seen it?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; relevance, move to
strike, nonresponsive.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled. Assuming you
personally know the police officers that saw it.
THE WITNESS: I personally know that
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video, but I think it was necessary to make that
objection again now.
MS. AILIN: We do intend to offer the video, but
what 1 have been told is that I need to provide
authentication of where it came from, et cetera, and
Miss Pickers testimony is intended in part to provide
that authentication.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Right.
MS. AILIN: If there is an issue about whether
pictures that Miss Parker believes are the interior of
Fury, there is Exhibit F25 in the exhibits that Fury is
proposing to use that are photographs -- I would be
happy to have Miss Parker took at these photographs and
say whether they look like the other photographs she has
seen that she understood to be the interior of Fury.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's the bootstrap. My
opinion is that in order to admit this video, that a
person who has seen the inside of the Fury and then
looks at the video and says, yes, I agree that is the
inside of the Fury, then that authenticates it, but it
doesn't sound like Miss Parker can do that --
MS. ARdN: And Pm not --
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- except through pictures.
MS. AILIN: And fm not suggesting that she can,
and well have testimony from other witnesses who can.
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I'm trying to establish put of the chain —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Sure.
MS. AILIN: -- between the Internet and those
videos.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you. Good.
MS. AILIN: I have no further questions for
Miss Parker.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Proceed
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BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Hi, Miss Parker. Miss Parker, prior to
engaging in the research that you did on behalf of the
city attorney's office, were you aware that there is a
conditional use permit allowing Fury to operate as a
restaurant with live entertainment and dancing?
A. Yes.
Q. And had you actually looked at the conditional
use permit prior to engaging in your research?
A. Yes.
Q. So you are familiar with the conditions that
allow dancing and five entertainment so long as a live
entertainment permit and a dance permit were obtained,
correct?
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Detective Doug Jones has seen it. Dave Stark,
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THE WITNESS: Yes.
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the inside of Fury, and rm saying it lacks foundation,
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video, but I think it was necessary to make that
objection again now.
MS. AILIN: We do intend to offer the video, but
what 1 have been told is that I need to provide
authentication of where it came from, et cetera, and
Miss Pickers testimony is intended in part to provide
that authentication.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Right.
MS. AILIN: If there is an issue about whether
pictures that Miss Parker believes are the interior of
Fury, there is Exhibit F25 in the exhibits that Fury is
proposing to use that are photographs -- I would be
happy to have Miss Parker took at these photographs and
say whether they look like the other photographs she has
seen that she understood to be the interior of Fury.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's the bootstrap. My
opinion is that in order to admit this video, that a
person who has seen the inside of the Fury and then
looks at the video and says, yes, I agree that is the
inside of the Fury, then that authenticates it, but it
doesn't sound like Miss Parker can do that --
MS. ARdN: And Pm not --
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- except through pictures.
MS. AILIN: And fm not suggesting that she can,
and well have testimony from other witnesses who can.
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I'm trying to establish put of the chain —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Sure.
MS. AILIN: -- between the Internet and those
videos.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you. Good.
MS. AILIN: I have no further questions for
Miss Parker.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Proceed
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BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Hi, Miss Parker. Miss Parker, prior to
engaging in the research that you did on behalf of the
city attorney's office, were you aware that there is a
conditional use permit allowing Fury to operate as a
restaurant with live entertainment and dancing?
A. Yes.
Q. And had you actually looked at the conditional
use permit prior to engaging in your research?
A. Yes.
Q. So you are familiar with the conditions that
allow dancing and five entertainment so long as a live
entertainment permit and a dance permit were obtained,
correct?
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in revocation of those permits meaning those three
permits. We view them as a package. We view them as
constitutional rights that Fury holds to be able to
conduct this type of activity and is constitutionally
Protected at this time.
THE HEARING OFFICER: So primarily we are referrit
to the second CUP, 3162 I believe it is, as the -- when
we use the term "permit "? No. 2 in your exhibit.
MS. AILIN: C2.
THE HEARING OFFICER: C2.
MR. JAMIESON: Which is 2005 -018 --
THE HEARING OFFICER: Yes.
MR. JAMIESON: -- also known as resolution 1661.
MS. AILIN: 1661.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thanks. I interrupted you
cross- exarnination. Please proceed.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. I'm not sum if I actually got an answer to my
question. Miss Parker, prior to engaging in the search
that the city attorney's office asked you to do, you had
looked at the conditional use permit, correct?
A. That's correct
Q. And that conditional use peroot you saw
included provisions for hours of operation being from
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 am. seven days a week, right?
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A. I would have to look at the permit Would
that be okay?
Q. If you need to refresh your recollection,
please do so. It's in the City's exhibit as C2.
A. Condition No. 8 of the use permit says the
hours of operations are from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
seven days a week.
Q. Also in preparing for your research task, you
saw in the conditional use permit that it contemplated
live entertainment activity and that condition No. 9
says, "Prior to the commencement of live entertainment
activity the applicant shall obtain a live entertainment
permit," right?
A. That's correct
Q. In fact, in preparing for your research you
also saw the live entertainment permit that was
obtained, which is identified in City's Exhibit C3 as
permit to conduct live entertainment, correct?
A. That's correct
Q. And I'm sure that you took into account while
you were doing your research that much of that live
entertainment at a premise like this that is open until
2:00 a.m. will include, in fact, entertainment that is
live, right?
A. That's correct.
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for Hamburger Mary's that are the two — when you use
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in revocation of those permits meaning those three
permits. We view them as a package. We view them as
constitutional rights that Fury holds to be able to
conduct this type of activity and is constitutionally
Protected at this time.
THE HEARING OFFICER: So primarily we are referrit
to the second CUP, 3162 I believe it is, as the -- when
we use the term "permit "? No. 2 in your exhibit.
MS. AILIN: C2.
THE HEARING OFFICER: C2.
MR. JAMIESON: Which is 2005 -018 --
THE HEARING OFFICER: Yes.
MR. JAMIESON: -- also known as resolution 1661.
MS. AILIN: 1661.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thanks. I interrupted you
cross- exarnination. Please proceed.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. I'm not sum if I actually got an answer to my
question. Miss Parker, prior to engaging in the search
that the city attorney's office asked you to do, you had
looked at the conditional use permit, correct?
A. That's correct
Q. And that conditional use peroot you saw
included provisions for hours of operation being from
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 am. seven days a week, right?
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A. I would have to look at the permit Would
that be okay?
Q. If you need to refresh your recollection,
please do so. It's in the City's exhibit as C2.
A. Condition No. 8 of the use permit says the
hours of operations are from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
seven days a week.
Q. Also in preparing for your research task, you
saw in the conditional use permit that it contemplated
live entertainment activity and that condition No. 9
says, "Prior to the commencement of live entertainment
activity the applicant shall obtain a live entertainment
permit," right?
A. That's correct
Q. In fact, in preparing for your research you
also saw the live entertainment permit that was
obtained, which is identified in City's Exhibit C3 as
permit to conduct live entertainment, correct?
A. That's correct
Q. And I'm sure that you took into account while
you were doing your research that much of that live
entertainment at a premise like this that is open until
2:00 a.m. will include, in fact, entertainment that is
live, right?
A. That's correct.
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that you perceived to be a promoter of some type was
advertising on the Internet for Fury?
A. That wasn't the assignment that was given to
M.
Q. What was the assignment, by the way?
A. To locate any information on the Internet
about Fury, pictures, videos.
Q. Now, did you form any kind of conclusion that
this Social Group entity, whatever that might be, was in
fact, some type of promoter for advertising or
marketing?
A. I came to the conclusion that they were a
proinotor by an article I read in the O.C. Weekly
published in 2005.
Q. Now, I'm sure in preparing for your research
activity as you have described and I'm looking at the
conditional use permit, which you indicated you did, you
saw condition No. 19 that talks about any event or
activity staged by an outside promoter or entity where
the restaurant owner or his employees or representatives
share in any profits or pay any percentage or commission
to a promoter or any other person based upon money
collected as a door charge, cover charge or other form
of admission charge including minimum drink orders or
sales of drinks is prohibited. You saw that?
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A. That's correct.
Q. There is no information that you saw on the
documents that you identified here today that indicates
that whether it he $20 as a cover charge or some other
amount as cover charge, that there is any profit or any
amount shared by Fury with any promoter, did you? As
far as you know, that money could have gone directly to
Fury and it wasn't shared with any promoter; isn't that
true?
A. I don't know what happens to the money when
it's collected at the door, no.
Q. Fair enough.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I'm sorry. What was that
response?
THE WITNESS: I don't know what happens to the
money after its collected at the door.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. In preparing for your research, did you form
the conclusion that this condition would only he
violated if those profits or monies were shared with the
promoter?
MS. AUJN: Objection; relevance as to
Miss Parker's conclusion.
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that you perceived to be a promoter of some type was
advertising on the Internet for Fury?
A. That wasn't the assignment that was given to
M.
Q. What was the assignment, by the way?
A. To locate any information on the Internet
about Fury, pictures, videos.
Q. Now, did you form any kind of conclusion that
this Social Group entity, whatever that might be, was in
fact, some type of promoter for advertising or
marketing?
A. I came to the conclusion that they were a
proinotor by an article I read in the O.C. Weekly
published in 2005.
Q. Now, I'm sure in preparing for your research
activity as you have described and I'm looking at the
conditional use permit, which you indicated you did, you
saw condition No. 19 that talks about any event or
activity staged by an outside promoter or entity where
the restaurant owner or his employees or representatives
share in any profits or pay any percentage or commission
to a promoter or any other person based upon money
collected as a door charge, cover charge or other form
of admission charge including minimum drink orders or
sales of drinks is prohibited. You saw that?
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A. That's correct.
Q. There is no information that you saw on the
documents that you identified here today that indicates
that whether it he $20 as a cover charge or some other
amount as cover charge, that there is any profit or any
amount shared by Fury with any promoter, did you? As
far as you know, that money could have gone directly to
Fury and it wasn't shared with any promoter; isn't that
true?
A. I don't know what happens to the money when
it's collected at the door, no.
Q. Fair enough.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I'm sorry. What was that
response?
THE WITNESS: I don't know what happens to the
money after its collected at the door.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. In preparing for your research, did you form
the conclusion that this condition would only he
violated if those profits or monies were shared with the
promoter?
MS. AUJN: Objection; relevance as to
Miss Parker's conclusion.
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MS. AILIN: She has not given any testimony so far
relevant to the question whether condition 26 was
complied with or not.
MIL JAMIESON: Pm not asking about if it was
complied with
THE HEARING OFFICER: rm going to overrule the
objection, but go ahead and proceed with that line.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Did you consider the items that are identified
in Exhibit 26, that is that there is supposed to be
training for sales of alcoholic beverages at this
restaurant?
A. I don't know If "considered" is the correct
word. I read the use permit and was familiar with it,
but it wasn't anything I was charged with in determining
whether or not that condition was compiled with.
Q. Okay. In reviewing the CUP you also saw that
the establishment was described here as an eating and
drinking establishment, right? Look at condition No.
27.
A. Yes.
Q. So now with the information In hand that the
conditional use permit provided for this premises to be
a restaurant, to be an eating and drinking
establishment, to provide dancing after nine o'clock and
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up until 2:00 a.m. in the morning so long as it had a
dance permit and to provide live entertainment, you then
proceeded with your research task, correct. Fair
enough?
A. Fair enough, yes.
Q. Now, did you also happen to look at the floor
Plan for the Fury in preparation for your research?
THE HEARING OFFICER: Mr. Jamieson, I want to
revisit the objection Miss Ailin previously made because
as I understand it, Miss Parker's research project was
to look on the Intemet to see what information was
there about Fury. Isn't that --
THE WITNESS: Thaw correct.
THE HEARING OFFICER: And now you are moving cic
off into all the other provisions in the use permit that
she may ar may not have been assigned to look at. So
maybe if you — I don't want to stick with strict
relevance in the determinations here, but on the other
hand, if it wasn t her assignment to look at all these
issues in the use permit, let's not continue down that
road. That would be my suggestion.
MR JAMIESON: Understandable, Your Honor, and I
hear what you are saying„ and Nri actually just about
done with that aspect of it anyway. 1 just think it's
important that we understand what Miss Parker's
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Sunday, and you knew the conditional use permit allowed
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for this restaurant to have in addition to those things
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MS. AILIN: She has not given any testimony so far
relevant to the question whether condition 26 was
complied with or not.
MIL JAMIESON: Pm not asking about if it was
complied with
THE HEARING OFFICER: rm going to overrule the
objection, but go ahead and proceed with that line.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Did you consider the items that are identified
in Exhibit 26, that is that there is supposed to be
training for sales of alcoholic beverages at this
restaurant?
A. I don't know If "considered" is the correct
word. I read the use permit and was familiar with it,
but it wasn't anything I was charged with in determining
whether or not that condition was compiled with.
Q. Okay. In reviewing the CUP you also saw that
the establishment was described here as an eating and
drinking establishment, right? Look at condition No.
27.
A. Yes.
Q. So now with the information In hand that the
conditional use permit provided for this premises to be
a restaurant, to be an eating and drinking
establishment, to provide dancing after nine o'clock and
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up until 2:00 a.m. in the morning so long as it had a
dance permit and to provide live entertainment, you then
proceeded with your research task, correct. Fair
enough?
A. Fair enough, yes.
Q. Now, did you also happen to look at the floor
Plan for the Fury in preparation for your research?
THE HEARING OFFICER: Mr. Jamieson, I want to
revisit the objection Miss Ailin previously made because
as I understand it, Miss Parker's research project was
to look on the Intemet to see what information was
there about Fury. Isn't that --
THE WITNESS: Thaw correct.
THE HEARING OFFICER: And now you are moving cic
off into all the other provisions in the use permit that
she may ar may not have been assigned to look at. So
maybe if you — I don't want to stick with strict
relevance in the determinations here, but on the other
hand, if it wasn t her assignment to look at all these
issues in the use permit, let's not continue down that
road. That would be my suggestion.
MR JAMIESON: Understandable, Your Honor, and I
hear what you are saying„ and Nri actually just about
done with that aspect of it anyway. 1 just think it's
important that we understand what Miss Parker's
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available and when, let me direct your attention to the
first exhibit you —
(Telephonic interruption.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: If anyone else has a cell
phone on, please turn it off.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Hiss Parker, with respect to this first
exhibit, Exhibit 12, if 1 can direct your attention to
that. Ito you have a copy of that in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, this particular exhibit, you said you
printed from SiennaEntertainment.com on February 4,
2008; is that right?
A. That's correct.
Q. This says at the top, "Welcome to Sienna
Entertainment luxury concierge and travel agency,"
correct?
A. Yes. In other words, luxury concierge and
personal VIP service. Oh, on the top.
Q. At the very top?
A. Uh -huh.
Q. Is that "yes"?
A. Yes.
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BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Miss Parker, on the second —well, on the
first page of Exhibit 12 at the top right -hand corner it
says page 1 of 1; do you see that?
A. Yes.
Q. So then the second page of Exhibit 12 is not
the second page of the document that you printed out
with the SiennaEntertainment.com document, is it?
A. No, the first page is the home page. The
second page is the result after searching for Fury.
Q. Okay.
THE BEARING OFFICER: That's the Sienna home page?
THE WITNESS: Yes, SiennaEntertainment.com.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Now, on the second page of Exhibit 12 where It
references the name Fury in Orange County, you don't
know whether or not Fury either posted this information
to that website or authorized it to be posted, do you?
A. No, I don't.
Q. And do you know who Sienna Entertainment is or
where they are located?
A. No, I don't have information about Sienna
Entertainment.
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dance Boor, correct?
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plot plans.
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put information on it, but also anybody and everybody
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available and when, let me direct your attention to the
first exhibit you —
(Telephonic interruption.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: If anyone else has a cell
phone on, please turn it off.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Hiss Parker, with respect to this first
exhibit, Exhibit 12, if 1 can direct your attention to
that. Ito you have a copy of that in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, this particular exhibit, you said you
printed from SiennaEntertainment.com on February 4,
2008; is that right?
A. That's correct.
Q. This says at the top, "Welcome to Sienna
Entertainment luxury concierge and travel agency,"
correct?
A. Yes. In other words, luxury concierge and
personal VIP service. Oh, on the top.
Q. At the very top?
A. Uh -huh.
Q. Is that "yes"?
A. Yes.
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Q. Miss Parker, on the second —well, on the
first page of Exhibit 12 at the top right -hand corner it
says page 1 of 1; do you see that?
A. Yes.
Q. So then the second page of Exhibit 12 is not
the second page of the document that you printed out
with the SiennaEntertainment.com document, is it?
A. No, the first page is the home page. The
second page is the result after searching for Fury.
Q. Okay.
THE BEARING OFFICER: That's the Sienna home page?
THE WITNESS: Yes, SiennaEntertainment.com.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Now, on the second page of Exhibit 12 where It
references the name Fury in Orange County, you don't
know whether or not Fury either posted this information
to that website or authorized it to be posted, do you?
A. No, I don't.
Q. And do you know who Sienna Entertainment is or
where they are located?
A. No, I don't have information about Sienna
Entertainment.
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person who wrote this apparently for Sienna
Entertainment is credible, and we don't know if any of
this is accurate as to Fury. Would all of that be true?
A. Not all of it, no.
Q. Well, actually the only thing you can testify
to is that when you went to the Internet you saw this
information and you printed it out and this is an
accurate copy of what you printed out; is that fair?
A. That's correct
Q. Now, by the way, when this was printed out on
February 4 of 2008, the initial hearing to attempt to
revoke this conditional use permit had already occurred,
that being on January 17th, right?
A. That's correct
Q. And — that's fine.
Let me draw your attention, then, to the next
document that you had testified about, that being
Exhibit 11. Do you have that in front of you,
Miss Parker?
A. Yes.
Q. Miss Parker, the advertisement here states
that this is the year's most exclusive New Year's party,
right?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you attend —
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A. No.
Q. — a New Year's party at Fury?
A. No, I did not
Q. Do you know who owns Mix or Maid (sic)?
MS. ALIN: Mix Armada.
MR. JAMIESON: Mix Armada.
MS. AILIN: You are not --
THE WITNESS: I have not researched who owns Mix
Armada.
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Q. I'm sorry?
A. I have not researched who owns Mix Armada, no.
Ali I know is they are D.J. promoted.
Q. Have you ever met anybody from Mix Armada?
A. No, not that I know of.
Q. Have you ever attended any event where Mix
Armada performed?
A. Not that I know of.
Q. So you really don't know who they are or what
they are, do you?
A. Not directly, no. I know what their website
has on it
Q. When you were searching for this information
on the Internet, did you or had you as a result of
reviewing the conditional use permit formed an opinion
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newspapers or whether you're doing it by looking at
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other documents of some sort, you always have to look to
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person who wrote this apparently for Sienna
Entertainment is credible, and we don't know if any of
this is accurate as to Fury. Would all of that be true?
A. Not all of it, no.
Q. Well, actually the only thing you can testify
to is that when you went to the Internet you saw this
information and you printed it out and this is an
accurate copy of what you printed out; is that fair?
A. That's correct
Q. Now, by the way, when this was printed out on
February 4 of 2008, the initial hearing to attempt to
revoke this conditional use permit had already occurred,
that being on January 17th, right?
A. That's correct
Q. And — that's fine.
Let me draw your attention, then, to the next
document that you had testified about, that being
Exhibit 11. Do you have that in front of you,
Miss Parker?
A. Yes.
Q. Miss Parker, the advertisement here states
that this is the year's most exclusive New Year's party,
right?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you attend —
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A. No.
Q. — a New Year's party at Fury?
A. No, I did not
Q. Do you know who owns Mix or Maid (sic)?
MS. ALIN: Mix Armada.
MR. JAMIESON: Mix Armada.
MS. AILIN: You are not --
THE WITNESS: I have not researched who owns Mix
Armada.
BY MR. JAMIESON.
Q. I'm sorry?
A. I have not researched who owns Mix Armada, no.
Ali I know is they are D.J. promoted.
Q. Have you ever met anybody from Mix Armada?
A. No, not that I know of.
Q. Have you ever attended any event where Mix
Armada performed?
A. Not that I know of.
Q. So you really don't know who they are or what
they are, do you?
A. Not directly, no. I know what their website
has on it
Q. When you were searching for this information
on the Internet, did you or had you as a result of
reviewing the conditional use permit formed an opinion
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is the name the site has been given, the particular
MySpace page. 24 is the age that has been identified in
their profile information and female is the information
that identified the profile information.
Q. When you reference profile information, the
little I know from watching my kids do MySpace and Face
Book and things, that's generally a profile about the
person who the web page or the MySpace page is about; is
that right?
A. Generally.
Q. Now, in this case Fury is a company, so it's
neither 24, nor female; would we agree?
A. I would agree.
Q. And Mr. Gonzalez, who is sitting here, is
certainly not female and he doesn't appear to be 24.
Would you agree?
A. Not to my knowledge.
Q. You would agree with that observation,
wouldn't you?
A. (No answer.)
Q. So with respect to the profile being
something to identify who actually has this web page,
that doesn't help us in determining if the MySpace web
page that you looked at to attribute to Fury was
actually something that was put up or authorized or
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initiated by Fury, right? It says female, 24?
A. Profile information wouldn't indicate that,
no.
Q. Now, in fact, profile information on a MySpace
web page — and 1'B go out on a limb here because I'm
going to ask a question 1 don't know the answer to,
which is usually something lawyers don't do, but I will
try it on this one. The profile can actually be changed
by other people other than the person who has the
website, right, if they are provided permission to do
that? In other words, it's open, I guess they call it?
A. It's not open, no. It's — it something that
can only be accessed by a person who has the log -in and
password information.
Q. So in that case if the information were
true — and we don't know what information on any
website on the Internet is true —
MS. AILIN: Objection; move to strike.
MR. JAMIESON: I don't blame you. I would move to
strike that too.
Q. 24 and female certainly doesn't tell us what
Fury is?
A. It could be their target audience.
Q. It could be a lot of things. I will move to
strike that as being nonresponsive.
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is the name the site has been given, the particular
MySpace page. 24 is the age that has been identified in
their profile information and female is the information
that identified the profile information.
Q. When you reference profile information, the
little I know from watching my kids do MySpace and Face
Book and things, that's generally a profile about the
person who the web page or the MySpace page is about; is
that right?
A. Generally.
Q. Now, in this case Fury is a company, so it's
neither 24, nor female; would we agree?
A. I would agree.
Q. And Mr. Gonzalez, who is sitting here, is
certainly not female and he doesn't appear to be 24.
Would you agree?
A. Not to my knowledge.
Q. You would agree with that observation,
wouldn't you?
A. (No answer.)
Q. So with respect to the profile being
something to identify who actually has this web page,
that doesn't help us in determining if the MySpace web
page that you looked at to attribute to Fury was
actually something that was put up or authorized or
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initiated by Fury, right? It says female, 24?
A. Profile information wouldn't indicate that,
no.
Q. Now, in fact, profile information on a MySpace
web page — and 1'B go out on a limb here because I'm
going to ask a question 1 don't know the answer to,
which is usually something lawyers don't do, but I will
try it on this one. The profile can actually be changed
by other people other than the person who has the
website, right, if they are provided permission to do
that? In other words, it's open, I guess they call it?
A. It's not open, no. It's — it something that
can only be accessed by a person who has the log -in and
password information.
Q. So in that case if the information were
true — and we don't know what information on any
website on the Internet is true —
MS. AILIN: Objection; move to strike.
MR. JAMIESON: I don't blame you. I would move to
strike that too.
Q. 24 and female certainly doesn't tell us what
Fury is?
A. It could be their target audience.
Q. It could be a lot of things. I will move to
strike that as being nonresponsive.
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correct?
A. That's correct, there are references to their
menu.
Q. And I'm sure that in your Internet research
you also found that Fury has a chef that has some
renown, if not fame, true?
A. Yes, I did read articles about their chef.
Q. Now, you didn't— you don't have those copies
here with you today that we are looking at do you?
A. I believe you provided them as exhibits in
documents.
Q. So you did see those items when you were doing
your research, right?
A. I saw some of them on -tine. Some of them were
not on -fine. I don't remember which ones were on -line,
which ones were not on -line.
Q. Is it fair to say in doing your Internet
research that as a result of what you were asked to do
that by the city attorney's office, you found
information about Fury being a restaurant serving food
with a well- renowned chef, and it also had live
entertainment and dancing, correct?
A. Those are — yes, those are items I found.
There are other items, but, yes.
Q. Let's direct your attention now, please, to
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Exhibit 14 and the second page. On the second page it
reflects — it is stated there that Fury is open at
10:00 p.m. and closes at 2:00 a.m.; right?
A. Yes.
Q. And that in itself is certainly not
inconsistent with what you saw in the various permits,
right?
A. The hours of operation?
Q. Right.
A. The hours are not inconsistent, no.
The hours on the use permit don't say that
they open at 10:00, but that they can be open until 2:00
a.m.
Q. Right, in fact, they can be open at 11:00 a.m
according to the use permit, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Let me direct your attention to the next
document you referenced, which was Exhibit 15. Do you
have that in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, this particular exhibit, like the other
exhibits where you print off information from the
Internet, it appears to be attributed to a particular
source, which is — here it says TicketTriangle.cum,
correct?
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A. Sure.
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correct?
A. That's correct, there are references to their
menu.
Q. And I'm sure that in your Internet research
you also found that Fury has a chef that has some
renown, if not fame, true?
A. Yes, I did read articles about their chef.
Q. Now, you didn't— you don't have those copies
here with you today that we are looking at do you?
A. I believe you provided them as exhibits in
documents.
Q. So you did see those items when you were doing
your research, right?
A. I saw some of them on -tine. Some of them were
not on -fine. I don't remember which ones were on -line,
which ones were not on -line.
Q. Is it fair to say in doing your Internet
research that as a result of what you were asked to do
that by the city attorney's office, you found
information about Fury being a restaurant serving food
with a well- renowned chef, and it also had live
entertainment and dancing, correct?
A. Those are — yes, those are items I found.
There are other items, but, yes.
Q. Let's direct your attention now, please, to
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Exhibit 14 and the second page. On the second page it
reflects — it is stated there that Fury is open at
10:00 p.m. and closes at 2:00 a.m.; right?
A. Yes.
Q. And that in itself is certainly not
inconsistent with what you saw in the various permits,
right?
A. The hours of operation?
Q. Right.
A. The hours are not inconsistent, no.
The hours on the use permit don't say that
they open at 10:00, but that they can be open until 2:00
a.m.
Q. Right, in fact, they can be open at 11:00 a.m
according to the use permit, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Let me direct your attention to the next
document you referenced, which was Exhibit 15. Do you
have that in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, this particular exhibit, like the other
exhibits where you print off information from the
Internet, it appears to be attributed to a particular
source, which is — here it says TicketTriangle.cum,
correct?
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Q. And you do not know what, if any, type of
entertainment or dancing is reflected on this web page
to occur on Friday or Saturday night starting at 9:00
p.m, do you?
A. No, all I know is that it's charge — it's a
S20 charge to buy a ticket.
Q. Which, ordering to the conditional use permit,
so long as the restaurant does not share profits with a
promoter or advertiser or marketer doesn't violate CUP,
does it?
MS. AII.IN: Objection; misrepresents the condition
as phrased in the use permit.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Do you wish to rephrase the
question?
MR. JAMIESON: I will withdraw, Your Honor.
Q. Now, Miss Parker, I note that the date
reflected at the bottom right of Exhibit 15 is February
5th, 2008. Is that the day that you printed out this
document?
A. That's correct
Q. And February 5th, 2008, then, certainly was
after the initial notice and initial revocation hearing
that started January 17th; would you agree?
A. Yes, that's correct.
Q. When were you asked to look for the
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exhibits?
A. I looked for them early on. I was
specifically asked, I believe it was February 4th — I
don't recall the date exactly — to print out
information.
Q. Okay. So prior to January 17th, then, you
were not asked to do this particular research; is that
true?
A. I don't recall. I know I had done most of
this research prior to the first hearing, but looked
into it further after this first hearing.
Q. The documentation and your testimony today
reflect information that you were tasked to look for
after the January 17th hearing?
A. ThaPs correct.
MS. AILIN: Can we go off the record for just one
second?
THE HEARING OFFICER: Sure.
(Discussion ensued off the record.)
MS. AILIN: Ijust wanted to take a break and note
that it was about 12:10 when we took a break off the
record just for a restroom break, but do I want to call
attention to the fact that we do seem to be -- the point
that information on the Internet is imperfect has been
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entertainment or dancing is reflected on this web page
to occur on Friday or Saturday night starting at 9:00
p.m, do you?
A. No, all I know is that it's charge — it's a
S20 charge to buy a ticket.
Q. Which, ordering to the conditional use permit,
so long as the restaurant does not share profits with a
promoter or advertiser or marketer doesn't violate CUP,
does it?
MS. AII.IN: Objection; misrepresents the condition
as phrased in the use permit.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Do you wish to rephrase the
question?
MR. JAMIESON: I will withdraw, Your Honor.
Q. Now, Miss Parker, I note that the date
reflected at the bottom right of Exhibit 15 is February
5th, 2008. Is that the day that you printed out this
document?
A. That's correct
Q. And February 5th, 2008, then, certainly was
after the initial notice and initial revocation hearing
that started January 17th; would you agree?
A. Yes, that's correct.
Q. When were you asked to look for the
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exhibits?
A. I looked for them early on. I was
specifically asked, I believe it was February 4th — I
don't recall the date exactly — to print out
information.
Q. Okay. So prior to January 17th, then, you
were not asked to do this particular research; is that
true?
A. I don't recall. I know I had done most of
this research prior to the first hearing, but looked
into it further after this first hearing.
Q. The documentation and your testimony today
reflect information that you were tasked to look for
after the January 17th hearing?
A. ThaPs correct.
MS. AILIN: Can we go off the record for just one
second?
THE HEARING OFFICER: Sure.
(Discussion ensued off the record.)
MS. AILIN: Ijust wanted to take a break and note
that it was about 12:10 when we took a break off the
record just for a restroom break, but do I want to call
attention to the fact that we do seem to be -- the point
that information on the Internet is imperfect has been
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MR. JAMIESON: It holds it up to a terrain extent.
It does. Sure, it does.
MS. MEIN: I was informed that the attorney
representing Fury at the meeting that took place
yesterday was Michael Cho, not Mr. Jamieson. That's who
I was told was going to be at the meeting on behalf of
Fury.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Even if that's true, it
doesn't matter. We have to proceed here, and that
transaction -- whatever that transaction is or isn't is
going to proceed, 1 presume.
MR. JAMIESON: That's true, and the hearing officer
made the determination this morning, and 1 respect that,
and that's what we are doing, and that's the story.
THE HEARING OFFICER: We are consuming a lot of
time, 1 agree. I would urge you both to accelerate to
the extent you can, and I do tell you that, as I
mentioned earlier off the record, that I'm going to
insist that personal concerns get less and less weight
in terms of how long we go with this hearing. And I
agree that we take witnesses out of order if we need to
because we do need to move it, assuming, which we have
to, that that sale transaction does not occur.
So would that -- the next comment you made was
taking -- what would be the next point, taking witnesses
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M5. AILIN: We may need to take witnesses out of
order.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Do you need to make a call
right now or anything like that?
MS. AI.IN: I don't right now. We do have
witnesses waiting elsewhere in city hall who want to
know if they can go to lunch, so I think we need to
decide when or whether we are breaking for lunch and
when we are going to resume.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Why don't we conclude
Miss Parker assuming we can in the next few minutes and
then take a half hour at the most for lunch and then get
started again. Does that help you at all?
MS. AILIN: That would allow me to --
THE HEARING OFFICER: They could go get something.
MS. AI-IN: — release the witnesses who are
waiting until about 1:30.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Well, that's a drag because
that means we are going to lose -- it depends how long
we go with Miss Parker right now.
MS. ARJN: Right.
THE HEARING OFFICER: How much more do you have,
you think?
MR. JAMIESON: 15, 20 minutes.
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MR. JAMIESON: It holds it up to a terrain extent.
It does. Sure, it does.
MS. MEIN: I was informed that the attorney
representing Fury at the meeting that took place
yesterday was Michael Cho, not Mr. Jamieson. That's who
I was told was going to be at the meeting on behalf of
Fury.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Even if that's true, it
doesn't matter. We have to proceed here, and that
transaction -- whatever that transaction is or isn't is
going to proceed, 1 presume.
MR. JAMIESON: That's true, and the hearing officer
made the determination this morning, and 1 respect that,
and that's what we are doing, and that's the story.
THE HEARING OFFICER: We are consuming a lot of
time, 1 agree. I would urge you both to accelerate to
the extent you can, and I do tell you that, as I
mentioned earlier off the record, that I'm going to
insist that personal concerns get less and less weight
in terms of how long we go with this hearing. And I
agree that we take witnesses out of order if we need to
because we do need to move it, assuming, which we have
to, that that sale transaction does not occur.
So would that -- the next comment you made was
taking -- what would be the next point, taking witnesses
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M5. AILIN: We may need to take witnesses out of
order.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Do you need to make a call
right now or anything like that?
MS. AI.IN: I don't right now. We do have
witnesses waiting elsewhere in city hall who want to
know if they can go to lunch, so I think we need to
decide when or whether we are breaking for lunch and
when we are going to resume.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Why don't we conclude
Miss Parker assuming we can in the next few minutes and
then take a half hour at the most for lunch and then get
started again. Does that help you at all?
MS. AILIN: That would allow me to --
THE HEARING OFFICER: They could go get something.
MS. AI-IN: — release the witnesses who are
waiting until about 1:30.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Well, that's a drag because
that means we are going to lose -- it depends how long
we go with Miss Parker right now.
MS. ARJN: Right.
THE HEARING OFFICER: How much more do you have,
you think?
MR. JAMIESON: 15, 20 minutes.
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you?
A. Personally or from this web page?
Q. Well, personally for one.
A. Personally, no.
Q. And from this web page the only reference that
you are looking at from which you draw the conclusion
that there is some type of general admission is where it
says GA, right?
A. I —from what is printed, that's correct.
That's what is printed, but I believe there is a — you
can click on the venue map, click to see venue map.
Q. But you have not done that and you don't have
that, correct?
A. I have done that, and I don't have it attached
here, no.
Q. So as you sit here today, you don't have any
testimony about other types of sections of some sort or
whether or not this is correct, that there is a GA of
any kind, right?
A. I'm sorry. What is the question?
Q. As you sit here today, you don't know if there
is any type of general admission versus some other type
of admission for any particular day, time for Fury, do
you?
A. Ticket Triangle there is only tickets for
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section GA.
Q. And it doesn't say anything on here as to what
GA reflects, does it?
A. When you click on the venue map, GA is general
admission.
Q. You don't have the venue map here, do you?
A. No, I do not.
Q. And you have no knowledge as to whether or not
any tickets of any kind were ever actually sold to
anybody on anybody on any website, do you?
A. No, l do not.
Q. So If Mr. Gonzalez were to testify that no
tickets were ever sold through any type of website that
we are looking at here, you would have no information to
contradict that, would you?
A. No.
Q. Let's draw your attention to Exhibit 17,
please. Do you have that in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, with respect to the dates and times here
that start off with February 5th and go up through May
of some date, do you have any knowledge, personal
knowledge, as to whether or not any event of any kind
occurred at Fury up to the current day? That would take
us up to about April 12, 1 guess.
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you?
A. Personally or from this web page?
Q. Well, personally for one.
A. Personally, no.
Q. And from this web page the only reference that
you are looking at from which you draw the conclusion
that there is some type of general admission is where it
says GA, right?
A. I —from what is printed, that's correct.
That's what is printed, but I believe there is a — you
can click on the venue map, click to see venue map.
Q. But you have not done that and you don't have
that, correct?
A. I have done that, and I don't have it attached
here, no.
Q. So as you sit here today, you don't have any
testimony about other types of sections of some sort or
whether or not this is correct, that there is a GA of
any kind, right?
A. I'm sorry. What is the question?
Q. As you sit here today, you don't know if there
is any type of general admission versus some other type
of admission for any particular day, time for Fury, do
you?
A. Ticket Triangle there is only tickets for
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Q. And it doesn't say anything on here as to what
GA reflects, does it?
A. When you click on the venue map, GA is general
admission.
Q. You don't have the venue map here, do you?
A. No, I do not.
Q. And you have no knowledge as to whether or not
any tickets of any kind were ever actually sold to
anybody on anybody on any website, do you?
A. No, l do not.
Q. So If Mr. Gonzalez were to testify that no
tickets were ever sold through any type of website that
we are looking at here, you would have no information to
contradict that, would you?
A. No.
Q. Let's draw your attention to Exhibit 17,
please. Do you have that in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, with respect to the dates and times here
that start off with February 5th and go up through May
of some date, do you have any knowledge, personal
knowledge, as to whether or not any event of any kind
occurred at Fury up to the current day? That would take
us up to about April 12, 1 guess.
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like a Staples event center.
Q. And down below where it says "Fury concert
tickets," have you seen anything in your Internet
research where any particular group has actually
performed a concert?
A. Just D.J. groups.
Q. And those D.J. groups that you reflected,
those D.J. groups according to the Internet research you
did were providing their services after 9:00 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday night and up to 2:00 a.m. just like
the CUP and the live entertainment permits allow them to
do?
A. 1 have seen evidence that they do work on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but 1 have also seen that
they provide live entertainment on other nights.
Q. Okay. You have never been to any of those
events. We have confirmed that?
A. That's correct.
Q. Now, with regard to the theater, it says "Fury
theater tickets." You are not aware of Fury being a
theater venue, are you?
MS. AIIJ N: Objection; cumulative, relevance.
MR. JAMIESON: First time I asked about theater.
THE WITNESS: fm sure every site --
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Q. In fact, Miss Parker, what this tells us is
that this web page that you printed out seems to
indicate that Fury has a sporting venue, a concert venue
and/or a theater venue, but we know that at least — we
know that all three of those are not true, correct?
A. I —
MS. AB.IN: Objection.
THE WITNESS: I can draw that conclusion.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. You can draw that conclusion?
A. I suppose you can draw that conclusion.
THE HEARING OFFICER: She already testified she
doesn't know.
THE WITNESS: I have no idea.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. But the point is that just because this
Internet page that you have printed out says that there
are such Fury sports tickets, Fury concert tickets or
Fury theater tickets doesn't mean that it's true that
there are such tickets?
A. It says that —
MS. Afi.IN: Objection; asked and answered.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. It also doesn't mean that Fury engages in
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like a Staples event center.
Q. And down below where it says "Fury concert
tickets," have you seen anything in your Internet
research where any particular group has actually
performed a concert?
A. Just D.J. groups.
Q. And those D.J. groups that you reflected,
those D.J. groups according to the Internet research you
did were providing their services after 9:00 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday night and up to 2:00 a.m. just like
the CUP and the live entertainment permits allow them to
do?
A. 1 have seen evidence that they do work on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but 1 have also seen that
they provide live entertainment on other nights.
Q. Okay. You have never been to any of those
events. We have confirmed that?
A. That's correct.
Q. Now, with regard to the theater, it says "Fury
theater tickets." You are not aware of Fury being a
theater venue, are you?
MS. AIIJ N: Objection; cumulative, relevance.
MR. JAMIESON: First time I asked about theater.
THE WITNESS: fm sure every site --
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Q. In fact, Miss Parker, what this tells us is
that this web page that you printed out seems to
indicate that Fury has a sporting venue, a concert venue
and/or a theater venue, but we know that at least — we
know that all three of those are not true, correct?
A. I —
MS. AB.IN: Objection.
THE WITNESS: I can draw that conclusion.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. You can draw that conclusion?
A. I suppose you can draw that conclusion.
THE HEARING OFFICER: She already testified she
doesn't know.
THE WITNESS: I have no idea.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. But the point is that just because this
Internet page that you have printed out says that there
are such Fury sports tickets, Fury concert tickets or
Fury theater tickets doesn't mean that it's true that
there are such tickets?
A. It says that —
MS. Afi.IN: Objection; asked and answered.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. It also doesn't mean that Fury engages in
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THE HEARING OFFICER: -- it is cross - examination,
so 1 will allow it.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. True?
A. Does the permit allow them to have tickets
sold for Friday and Saturday night?
MR. JAMIESON: If the court reporter could read
back my question, please.
(Record read.)
THE WITNESS: 1 still don't understand the
question.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Let me rephrase it.
A. Conditional use permits does allow dancing and
live entertainment Friday and Saturday nights.
Q. And the only thing that we see with this
document, Exhibit 18, is that something was being
advertised by somebody to occur maybe at Fury on a
Friday or Saturday night starting at nine o'clock, true?
A. This document shows a Social Group advertising
this event.
MR. JAMIESON: 1 will move to strike as being
nonresponsive, lacks foundation.
Q. You don't know who initiated this page or
who's advertising what. Ali you know is that it has the
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and then references creator as being Ticket Network,
right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And the only thing it reflects here is that on
a Friday and Saturday night starting at nine o'clock
something — it says here category music was gang to
occur, right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And in fact, the CUP and the Entertainment
permits that you looked at in preparation for your
research allowed the Fury to provide music on a Friday
or Saturday night starting at nine o'clock, correct?
A. That's correct
THE HEARING OFFICER: Miss Ailin, are you
attempting to prove that they conduct live entertainment
and dancing on nights or at times that the permit
doesn't allow?
MS. ABdN: That is not a major aspect of this.
The one advertisement --
THE HEARING OFFICER: Even if it's an aspect, then
he has a right to keep gang. Otherwise rm convinced
of what these pages say and so forth, so -- but if you
are -- or if you want to allude to that, then Mr.
Jamieson has the privilege to keep going.
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Q. True?
A. Does the permit allow them to have tickets
sold for Friday and Saturday night?
MR. JAMIESON: If the court reporter could read
back my question, please.
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THE WITNESS: 1 still don't understand the
question.
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Q. Let me rephrase it.
A. Conditional use permits does allow dancing and
live entertainment Friday and Saturday nights.
Q. And the only thing that we see with this
document, Exhibit 18, is that something was being
advertised by somebody to occur maybe at Fury on a
Friday or Saturday night starting at nine o'clock, true?
A. This document shows a Social Group advertising
this event.
MR. JAMIESON: 1 will move to strike as being
nonresponsive, lacks foundation.
Q. You don't know who initiated this page or
who's advertising what. Ali you know is that it has the
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and then references creator as being Ticket Network,
right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And the only thing it reflects here is that on
a Friday and Saturday night starting at nine o'clock
something — it says here category music was gang to
occur, right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And in fact, the CUP and the Entertainment
permits that you looked at in preparation for your
research allowed the Fury to provide music on a Friday
or Saturday night starting at nine o'clock, correct?
A. That's correct
THE HEARING OFFICER: Miss Ailin, are you
attempting to prove that they conduct live entertainment
and dancing on nights or at times that the permit
doesn't allow?
MS. ABdN: That is not a major aspect of this.
The one advertisement --
THE HEARING OFFICER: Even if it's an aspect, then
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are -- or if you want to allude to that, then Mr.
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A. That's correct.
Q. And it identifies a particular date of Friday,
February 8, 2008 at nine o'clock p.m., true?
A. True.
Q. And is it correct that you don't know what
happened on Friday, February 8th starting at nine
o'clock p.m., do you, at Fury?
A. I was not there, no.
Q. Okay. Now, with respect to — let's move to
Exhibit 19. Now, we haven't seen the video here today,
so I just have a few questions about what you have
testified to. First of all, the video that is being
proffered was a video that you found on YouTube, right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And the video you found on YouTube was a video
that indicates according to your notes that you looked
at was added December 12, 2007, which is what you
testified to, right?
A. Yes.
Q. The video itself — strike that.
You have no knowledge of when the video was
actually taken, correct?
A. From — when you watch the video, it indicates
that they were open for four months. That is the only
knowledge I have of when the video was taken.
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what day of the week the video was taken at all, true?
A. Correct.
Q. And you don't know who actually was taking the
video at whatever date, time, location it was taken,
true?
A. No, I do not know who the cameraman was.
Q. And you also don't know what happened to the
videotape after it was actually shot and before it got
posted to some websile called YouTube, do you?
A. No.
Q. And you have never seen the inside of the
Fury, so you don't know whether or not — from your
personal knowledge what may be depicted in this video we
are talking about is actually the inside of Fury, do
you?
A. Just from my personal knowledge, no, I do not
know what the inside of Fury looks like. I didn't go
inside —
Q. I'm not asking anything further. You have
answered my question. Thank you.
And the YouTube video notes that you were
looking at reflects that the time of the video was — I
think seven minutes, 46 seconds, so if we look at the
video, it should reflect that as well; is that right?
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A. That's correct.
Q. And it identifies a particular date of Friday,
February 8, 2008 at nine o'clock p.m., true?
A. True.
Q. And is it correct that you don't know what
happened on Friday, February 8th starting at nine
o'clock p.m., do you, at Fury?
A. I was not there, no.
Q. Okay. Now, with respect to — let's move to
Exhibit 19. Now, we haven't seen the video here today,
so I just have a few questions about what you have
testified to. First of all, the video that is being
proffered was a video that you found on YouTube, right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And the video you found on YouTube was a video
that indicates according to your notes that you looked
at was added December 12, 2007, which is what you
testified to, right?
A. Yes.
Q. The video itself — strike that.
You have no knowledge of when the video was
actually taken, correct?
A. From — when you watch the video, it indicates
that they were open for four months. That is the only
knowledge I have of when the video was taken.
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what day of the week the video was taken at all, true?
A. Correct.
Q. And you don't know who actually was taking the
video at whatever date, time, location it was taken,
true?
A. No, I do not know who the cameraman was.
Q. And you also don't know what happened to the
videotape after it was actually shot and before it got
posted to some websile called YouTube, do you?
A. No.
Q. And you have never seen the inside of the
Fury, so you don't know whether or not — from your
personal knowledge what may be depicted in this video we
are talking about is actually the inside of Fury, do
you?
A. Just from my personal knowledge, no, I do not
know what the inside of Fury looks like. I didn't go
inside —
Q. I'm not asking anything further. You have
answered my question. Thank you.
And the YouTube video notes that you were
looking at reflects that the time of the video was — I
think seven minutes, 46 seconds, so if we look at the
video, it should reflect that as well; is that right?
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A. That's correct.
Q. And it identifies a particular date of Friday,
February 8, 2008 at nine o'clock p.m., true?
A. True.
Q. And is it correct that you don't know what
happened on Friday, February 8th starting at nine
o'clock p.m., do you, at Fury?
A. I was not there, no.
Q. Okay. Now, with respect to — let's move to
Exhibit 19. Now, we haven't seen the video here today,
so I just have a few questions about what you have
testified to. First of all, the video that is being
proffered was a video that you found on YouTube, right?
A. That's correct.
Q. And the video you found on YouTube was a video
that indicates according to your notes that you looked
at was added December 12, 2007, which is what you
testified to, right?
A. Yes.
Q. The video itself — strike that.
You have no knowledge of when the video was
actually taken, correct?
A. From — when you watch the video, it indicates
that they were open for four months. That is the only
knowledge I have of when the video was taken.
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what day of the week the video was taken at all, true?
A. Correct.
Q. And you don't know who actually was taking the
video at whatever date, time, location it was taken,
true?
A. No, I do not know who the cameraman was.
Q. And you also don't know what happened to the
videotape after it was actually shot and before it got
posted to some websile called YouTube, do you?
A. No.
Q. And you have never seen the inside of the
Fury, so you don't know whether or not — from your
personal knowledge what may be depicted in this video we
are talking about is actually the inside of Fury, do
you?
A. Just from my personal knowledge, no, I do not
know what the inside of Fury looks like. I didn't go
inside —
Q. I'm not asking anything further. You have
answered my question. Thank you.
And the YouTube video notes that you were
looking at reflects that the time of the video was — I
think seven minutes, 46 seconds, so if we look at the
video, it should reflect that as well; is that right?
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Mr. Schillizzi and his wife, so let's not confuse the
two.
MR. JAMIESON: I apologize. I apologize. My
mistake.
Q. So you didn't see any woman that purported to
be Mr. Schillizd's wife on the video?
A. Not that 1 know of.
Q. Did the video that you downloaded and that is
being proffered in this proceeding as Exhibit 19 depicts
the time of day that it was taken?
A. Just that it was at night.
Q. When you say night, it appeared to you to be
inside a building, right?
A. I'm just referring to the portion that was
filmed outside. It was dark outside, and the sign was a
little —
MS. AILIN: Go off the record.
(Telephonic interruption.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: Back on. Can we turn that
phone off somehow? We don't need that interruption
again.
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this video that it appears to be nighttime, you have no
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A. That's correct The only knowledge I have is
from viewing the video.
Q. And it doesn't say on the video —
A. No, it does not.
Q. -- either verbally or in writing what time it
allegedly took place?
A. No, it does not.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Excuse me just a moment. I
did not hear Miss Parker testify that she has viewed
this video and, if so, how many times. Did she testify
to that?
MS. AI.IN: She testified that she has viewed the
video.
MR. JAMIESON: 1 thought she did.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Lees proceed their.
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Q. Miss Parker, when you viewed this video,
Exhibit 19, is it correct to say that there is nothing
either orally stated or in writing as to what date it
took place?
A. There is no specific date identified in the
video, no.
Q. The four months that you referenced, that's a
conclusion that you drew from your knowledge that Fury
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MR. JAMIESON: I apologize. I apologize. My
mistake.
Q. So you didn't see any woman that purported to
be Mr. Schillizd's wife on the video?
A. Not that 1 know of.
Q. Did the video that you downloaded and that is
being proffered in this proceeding as Exhibit 19 depicts
the time of day that it was taken?
A. Just that it was at night.
Q. When you say night, it appeared to you to be
inside a building, right?
A. I'm just referring to the portion that was
filmed outside. It was dark outside, and the sign was a
little —
MS. AILIN: Go off the record.
(Telephonic interruption.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: Back on. Can we turn that
phone off somehow? We don't need that interruption
again.
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Q. Miss Parker, other than your observation of
this video that it appears to be nighttime, you have no
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A. That's correct The only knowledge I have is
from viewing the video.
Q. And it doesn't say on the video —
A. No, it does not.
Q. -- either verbally or in writing what time it
allegedly took place?
A. No, it does not.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Excuse me just a moment. I
did not hear Miss Parker testify that she has viewed
this video and, if so, how many times. Did she testify
to that?
MS. AI.IN: She testified that she has viewed the
video.
MR. JAMIESON: 1 thought she did.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Lees proceed their.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Miss Parker, when you viewed this video,
Exhibit 19, is it correct to say that there is nothing
either orally stated or in writing as to what date it
took place?
A. There is no specific date identified in the
video, no.
Q. The four months that you referenced, that's a
conclusion that you drew from your knowledge that Fury
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MR. JAMIESON: Isn't it the basic foundation having
to do with whether or not what is depicted in the video
is indeed taking place at Fury during a relevant time
period and what events are occurring?
MS. AILIN: Wouldn't it make more sense to save
that question for someone who actually has been inside
Fury? We arejust wasting time here.
MR. JAMIESON: Well, Miss —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Tbat's my concern as well,
that we — Kristi Parker does not even know if this is
the inside of the Fury because she has never seen the
inside of the Fury.
MR. JAMIESON: I'm done, Your Honor. if you want
to snake an objection -- ym sorry. If you want to rule
on the objection and allow her to testify or not —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Sustain the objection.
MR. JAMtFSON: That's fine. I have nothing further
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Q. Miss Parker, in the research you have done
about Fury on the Internet, have you found information
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all lies?
A. No, I have not come across any information
like that.
Q. And have you found anything on the Internet
that says don't pay any attention to information on the
Ticket Triangle website about Fury, it's all bogus, it's
all lies?
A. No, I have not.
Q. And in your research about Fury on the
Internet, have you found anything on the Coast to Coast
Tickets website that says — excuse me. Have you found
anything that says that you should ignore what is on the
Coast to Coast Tickets website about Fury it's all
bogus, it's all lies?
A. No, I have not.
Q. Have you found anything on the Internet that
would indicate to you that in fact the people who appear
to be selling tickets for entry into Fury are not really
selling tickets for entry into Fury?
A. No, I have not.
Q. When we took our break, did you look In your
notes to see if you could pin down when you did your
Internet research about Fury?
A. Yes, l did.
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Q. And what did you find?
A. I found a printout from a Zvents page that 1
had initially printed out October 31, 2007.
Q. And did that refresh your recollection about
when you did your Internet research about Fury?
A. Yes.
Q. And when did you do your Internet research
about Fury now that your recollection bas been
refreshed?
A. The first time I did the Internet research
before the first hearing about October 31, 2007 as
indicated on that page, and 1 did it again the first
week of February.
Q. In your research about Fury — strike that.
In connection with your work as a paralegal in
the city attorney's office, have you been exposed to
Information from any source indicating that there is
some kind of connection between the Social Group and
Fury?
A. Yes.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; vague and ambiguous,
calls for speculation, calls for hearsay, lacks
foundation, irrelevant. 352.
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MR. JAMIESON: Isn't it the basic foundation having
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is indeed taking place at Fury during a relevant time
period and what events are occurring?
MS. AILIN: Wouldn't it make more sense to save
that question for someone who actually has been inside
Fury? We arejust wasting time here.
MR. JAMIESON: Well, Miss —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Tbat's my concern as well,
that we — Kristi Parker does not even know if this is
the inside of the Fury because she has never seen the
inside of the Fury.
MR. JAMIESON: I'm done, Your Honor. if you want
to snake an objection -- ym sorry. If you want to rule
on the objection and allow her to testify or not —
THE HEARING OFFICER: Sustain the objection.
MR. JAMtFSON: That's fine. I have nothing further
for Miss Parker.
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A. No, I have not come across any information
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Q. And have you found anything on the Internet
that says don't pay any attention to information on the
Ticket Triangle website about Fury, it's all bogus, it's
all lies?
A. No, I have not.
Q. And in your research about Fury on the
Internet, have you found anything on the Coast to Coast
Tickets website that says — excuse me. Have you found
anything that says that you should ignore what is on the
Coast to Coast Tickets website about Fury it's all
bogus, it's all lies?
A. No, I have not.
Q. Have you found anything on the Internet that
would indicate to you that in fact the people who appear
to be selling tickets for entry into Fury are not really
selling tickets for entry into Fury?
A. No, I have not.
Q. When we took our break, did you look In your
notes to see if you could pin down when you did your
Internet research about Fury?
A. Yes, l did.
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A. I found a printout from a Zvents page that 1
had initially printed out October 31, 2007.
Q. And did that refresh your recollection about
when you did your Internet research about Fury?
A. Yes.
Q. And when did you do your Internet research
about Fury now that your recollection bas been
refreshed?
A. The first time I did the Internet research
before the first hearing about October 31, 2007 as
indicated on that page, and 1 did it again the first
week of February.
Q. In your research about Fury — strike that.
In connection with your work as a paralegal in
the city attorney's office, have you been exposed to
Information from any source indicating that there is
some kind of connection between the Social Group and
Fury?
A. Yes.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; vague and ambiguous,
calls for speculation, calls for hearsay, lacks
foundation, irrelevant. 352.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
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MS. AILIN: Sure.
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MS. AILtN: I guess I will just charge ahead here.
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DOUGLAS WILLIAM JONES,
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Q. Good afternoon. Would you please state and
spell your name for the record.
A. Douglas William Jones, J- o- n -e-s.
Q. And, Mr. Jones, how are you employed?
A. I'm employed by the City of Newport Beach
Police Department.
Q. How long have you been a police officer for
the City of Newport Beach?
A. Approximately 17 and one half years.
Q. Is there a particular division or assignment
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Q. And what is that assignment?
A. I'm working in the detective bureau as a vice
and intelligence investigator.
Q. Have you been involved in an investigation of
issues surrounding whether Fury Rok and Rol Sushi is
complying with the terms of its use permit?
A. Yes.
Q. What has been the nature of your involvement?
A. My Involvement was working vice once we
received some concerns whether or not they are complying
with their use permit was to investigate those
allegations.
Q. And can you describe for us generally how you
went about investigating those allegations?
A. We reviewed police reports that come in, and
we went out and conducted some surveillances of the
business.
Q. Officer Jones, there is a binder here on the
table that has some documents in it that have been
pre - identified as documents that would be of use as
exhibits in this case. Would you please turn to tab 27
in that binder.
A Okay.
Q. And in particular I'd like to ask you to look
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between Fury and the Social Group?
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on numerous fliers for events at Fury m well as
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Matthew Maddock, one of the Social Group promoters as he
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YouTube and various information from MySpace websites,
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from Social Group and Fury and other, quote, friends
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that are listed on their pages has led me to other
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websites, but—
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attorney's office, have you obtained or seen any
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information from Fury denying that there is a
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relationship between Fury and Social Group?
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personal knowledge did you have about what a Social
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knowledge, not—
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This is all from articles, web pages.
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you said that you have met Mr. Brian Schillizzi five or
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six times?
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THE WITNESS: Yes.
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this video, had you previously met Mr. Schillizzi so
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that you --
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THE WITNESS: Yes.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: — so that you did recognize
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him on the video as being that individual?
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THE WITNESS: Yes. And he identified hhnse .
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may. It tray be evident, but -- actually I'm going to
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time.
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to reconvene at 1:30 or 125?
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MS. AII.IN: Yes. I think at that point most likely
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we will be in the conference room because the officers
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who will be the next witnesses are the under- -- some of
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the undercover officers who have requested that their
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appearance not be made public.
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MS. AILIN: Sure.
(Discussion ensued off the record.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: Are we ready`!
MS. AILtN: I guess I will just charge ahead here.
Could we have the court reporter swear the witness.
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JONES,
having been first duly administered an
oath in accordance with CCP 2094, was
examined and testified as follows:
EXAMINATION
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Good afternoon. Would you please state and
spell your name for the record.
A. Douglas William Jones, J- o- n -e-s.
Q. And, Mr. Jones, how are you employed?
A. I'm employed by the City of Newport Beach
Police Department.
Q. How long have you been a police officer for
the City of Newport Beach?
A. Approximately 17 and one half years.
Q. Is there a particular division or assignment
that you have currently?
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A. Yes.
Q. And what is that assignment?
A. I'm working in the detective bureau as a vice
and intelligence investigator.
Q. Have you been involved in an investigation of
issues surrounding whether Fury Rok and Rol Sushi is
complying with the terms of its use permit?
A. Yes.
Q. What has been the nature of your involvement?
A. My Involvement was working vice once we
received some concerns whether or not they are complying
with their use permit was to investigate those
allegations.
Q. And can you describe for us generally how you
went about investigating those allegations?
A. We reviewed police reports that come in, and
we went out and conducted some surveillances of the
business.
Q. Officer Jones, there is a binder here on the
table that has some documents in it that have been
pre - identified as documents that would be of use as
exhibits in this case. Would you please turn to tab 27
in that binder.
A Okay.
Q. And in particular I'd like to ask you to look
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Have you seen those pages before?
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Four days later is not at or near the time of the event;
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A. Yes.
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and therefore, it doesn't provide the requisite basis,
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Q. And can you describe to us what those pages
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foundation, hearsay, speculation, lack of relevance.
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observation.
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Q. And this is a report that you prepared?
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Mr. Jamieson's objection, and 1 can ask some additional
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A. Yes.
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questions. I happen to agree with the hearing officer
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Q. Was it prepared in the course and scope of
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that four days is soon enough, but let me ask a few
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your duties as a police officer?
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additional questions.
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A. Yes.
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Q. Detective Jones, did you take notes of your
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Q. Was it prepared near the time of the events
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observations while you were at the scene?
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described in the report?
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A. Yes.
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MR. JAMIESON: Objection; vague and ambiguous as to
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Q. And did you preserve those notes for a period
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"near."
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of time?
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A. Yes.
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described in this report?
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report contained in Exhibit 27?
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A. On the 2nd of November.
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A. Yes.
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Q. And when was the report prepared?
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Q. So let's move on to Exhibit 28.
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A. On the 6th of November.
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just restate the objection on the same bases and
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of certain events that occurred outside Fury?
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grounds, and 1 don't think the additional testimony
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helped at all.
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officer wants to hear some sort of narrative from the
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Q. Detective Jones, looking at Exhibit 28 and in
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officers. My intention was to authenticate the reports
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particular --
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and elicit the testimony necessary under Evidence Code
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MR. JAMIESON: Excuse me. I think I need a ruling.
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section 1280, but if the hearing officer is interested
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in more narrative testimony, we can do that or I can
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on that.
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just procced for the next report.
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report speaks for itself as long as he authenticates it
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Q. Detective Jones, please take a look at the
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and said he wrote the report, then thafs fine with me.
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first five pages of Exhibit 28. Have you seen those
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MS. All-IN: Okay.
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pages before?
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THE HEARING OFFICER: And from there you can do as
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A. Yes.
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little as you want, and Mr. Jamieson can then examine
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Q. And is this a report prepared by you regarding
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him.
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observations at Fury?
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MR. JAMIESON: I have an objection that I need to
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A. Yes.
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put on the record that the statements and testimony of
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Q. And what was the date that the events
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Mr. Jones have not provided the requisite base for
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subscribed in the report occurred?
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Evidence Code 1280. 1280 requires that an official
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A. It occurred on the 9th of November.
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report be done at or near the time of the event depicted
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Q. And when was the report prepared?
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in the document, and Mr. Jones -- I'm sorry. Is it
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A. The employee's report was prepared on the 12th
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Detective Jones or Mr. Jones or what?
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of November.
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the events he said he observed took place on November
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MS. A71JN: This is Exhibit 28.
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MR, JAMIESON: I understand the reason. I just
want to make sure rm clear, and on Exhibit 29 you have
indicated the first three pages, and that's the only
part that you are having Detective Jones talk about?
MS. AILJ: That's correct.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Jones, did you prepare the first
three pages of Exhibit 29?
A. Yes.
Q. And did you prepare that report in the course
and scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes.
Q. When did the events described in the first
three pages of Exhibit 29 occur?
A. On the 25th — or January 25th.
Q. And what is the date that this report was
prepared?
A. January 29th.
Q. Did you take notes of the events that occurred
on the 25th as you were observing them?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you use those notes in the preparation of
this report?
A. Yes.
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MS. AILIN: Move to have the first three pages of
Exhibit 29 admitted into evidence.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection on the same or similar
basis, that Evidence Code section 1280 does not save
this from being nonadmissible. It is hearsay, remains
hearsay, lacks foundation, calls for speculation, is
irrelevant.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled, and they can be
admitted.
(Cityrs Exhibits 27 and 28
were marked into evidence and are
bound separately.)
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Jones, I would like to turn your
attention to Exhibit 31 and in particular the first four
pages of Exhibit 31. Is this a report that you prepared
regarding observations outside Fury?
A Yes.
Q. And when were the events that are described in
this report, when did those events occur?
A. January 31st of this year.
Q. Are you sure that's the date of the events and
not the date and time reported?
A. The date of the event, what I understood, was
on January 31st.
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you were at the scene on November 9th?
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A. Yes.
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Q. Did you use those notes in preparing the
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report that we have identified as being the first five
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pages of Exhibit 28?
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A. Yes.
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Q. And are you the one who prepared the first
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five pages of Exhibit 28?
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A. Yes.
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scope as your duties as a police officer?
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A. Yes.
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Q. And is your report based on your observations
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of events outside Fury on November 9th?
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A. Yes.
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Q. I'm going to move onto Exhibit 29, and I'm
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assuming that Mr. Jamieson has an objection.
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requesting to move that into evidence?
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MR, JAMIESON: I understand the reason. I just
want to make sure rm clear, and on Exhibit 29 you have
indicated the first three pages, and that's the only
part that you are having Detective Jones talk about?
MS. AILJ: That's correct.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Jones, did you prepare the first
three pages of Exhibit 29?
A. Yes.
Q. And did you prepare that report in the course
and scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes.
Q. When did the events described in the first
three pages of Exhibit 29 occur?
A. On the 25th — or January 25th.
Q. And what is the date that this report was
prepared?
A. January 29th.
Q. Did you take notes of the events that occurred
on the 25th as you were observing them?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you use those notes in the preparation of
this report?
A. Yes.
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MS. AILIN: Move to have the first three pages of
Exhibit 29 admitted into evidence.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection on the same or similar
basis, that Evidence Code section 1280 does not save
this from being nonadmissible. It is hearsay, remains
hearsay, lacks foundation, calls for speculation, is
irrelevant.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled, and they can be
admitted.
(Cityrs Exhibits 27 and 28
were marked into evidence and are
bound separately.)
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Jones, I would like to turn your
attention to Exhibit 31 and in particular the first four
pages of Exhibit 31. Is this a report that you prepared
regarding observations outside Fury?
A Yes.
Q. And when were the events that are described in
this report, when did those events occur?
A. January 31st of this year.
Q. Are you sure that's the date of the events and
not the date and time reported?
A. The date of the event, what I understood, was
on January 31st.
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objection as well, but primarily since I understand the
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city is attempting to utilize Evidence Code 1280, it
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doesn't meet the foundational requirements of 1280, and
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it lacks foundation.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: And your position is the
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same, I take it?
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MS. AILIN: My position is the same. We have met
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the requirements of Evidence Code section, which means
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it's not hearsay.
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Q. Moving onto Exhibit 29 and in particular the
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first three pages of Exhibit 29, Detective Jones, have
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you seen those pages before?
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Exhibit 27 and Exhibit 28 you referenced respectively !
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MS. AILIN: That's correct.
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Exhibit 28 and nothing else in those exhibits?
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MS. AILIN: That's correct, because that's the only
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MR, JAMIESON: I understand the reason. I just
want to make sure rm clear, and on Exhibit 29 you have
indicated the first three pages, and that's the only
part that you are having Detective Jones talk about?
MS. AILJ: That's correct.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Jones, did you prepare the first
three pages of Exhibit 29?
A. Yes.
Q. And did you prepare that report in the course
and scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes.
Q. When did the events described in the first
three pages of Exhibit 29 occur?
A. On the 25th — or January 25th.
Q. And what is the date that this report was
prepared?
A. January 29th.
Q. Did you take notes of the events that occurred
on the 25th as you were observing them?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you use those notes in the preparation of
this report?
A. Yes.
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MS. AILIN: Move to have the first three pages of
Exhibit 29 admitted into evidence.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection on the same or similar
basis, that Evidence Code section 1280 does not save
this from being nonadmissible. It is hearsay, remains
hearsay, lacks foundation, calls for speculation, is
irrelevant.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled, and they can be
admitted.
(Cityrs Exhibits 27 and 28
were marked into evidence and are
bound separately.)
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Jones, I would like to turn your
attention to Exhibit 31 and in particular the first four
pages of Exhibit 31. Is this a report that you prepared
regarding observations outside Fury?
A Yes.
Q. And when were the events that are described in
this report, when did those events occur?
A. January 31st of this year.
Q. Are you sure that's the date of the events and
not the date and time reported?
A. The date of the event, what I understood, was
on January 31st.
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Ink of relevancy, lack of foundation, and Evidence Code
section 1280 does not save this document from being
inadmissible. The foundational requirements of section
1280 have not been satisfied.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled. I will admit it.
(City's Exhibits 32 was
marked into evidence and is
bound separately)
MS. AUN: That is the last of the police reports
that Detective Jones authored, so I would turn the
witness over to Mr. Jamieson for cross - examination.
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BY MR, JAMIESON:
Q. Detective Jones, at the beginning of your
testimony today you indicated that the reason for the
initiation of your investigation was as a result of some
type of allegation or complaint; is that right?
A. Yes.
MS. AILIN: Objection; I -- mischaracterizes the
witness' testimony, but go ahead.
MR. JAMIESON: Any time I mischaracterize something
you think that was said, you let me know, but rm just
telling you what I heard.
Q. So what initiated your involvement in this
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investigation is that somebody asked you to do
something, fair?
A. Yes.
Q. Who asked you initially to begin the
investigation?
A. That would be my supervisor.
Q. And who was that?
A. Sergeant Ron Vallercamp.
Q. What did Sergeant Ron Vallercamp tell you and
what did he tell about the Fury location at that time?
A. I don't remember the exact date. He had
mentioned some reports we had been receiving from patrol
officers that work the area, arrest reports from
complaints and that there was quite a bit of activity
being generated from this one location, that due to my
current assignment, 1 needed to look into it and see
what was going there.
Q. Did you ever review any of the documents prior
to going out on November 2nd of 2007?
MS. AILIN: Objection; what document?
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. The document you just referenced.
A. Yes.
Q. How soon before November 2nd, 2007 did you
review any documents in preparation for your
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were occurring?
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A. Yes.
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Q. Did you use those notes in the preparation of
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your report?
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A. Yes.
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Q. And is the report based on your observation of
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the events described in the report?
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A. Yes.
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Exhibit 31 admitted into evidence.
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MR. JAMIESON: Same objections; hearsay, calls for
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speculation, lacks foundation, irrelevant, and Evidence
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Code section 1280 does not apply to save this from its
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inadmissibility. The foundational elements of section
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1280 have not been satisfied.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled and the exhibit may
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be admitted.
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attention now to Exhibit 32 and in particular the first
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four pages of Exhibit 32. Have you seen those pages
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before?
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A. Yes.
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Q. And is this a report that you have prepared?
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A. Yes.
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your duties as a police officer?
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A. Yes.
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Q. When did the events that are described in this
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report take place?
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A. February 29th.
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Q. And when was the report prepared?
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A. March 3rd.
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Q. Did you take notes of the events that occurred
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on February 29th --
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A. Yes.
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Q. — about the time they were occurring?
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A. Yes.
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Q. And did you use those notes in the preparation
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of this report?
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A. Yes.
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Ink of relevancy, lack of foundation, and Evidence Code
section 1280 does not save this document from being
inadmissible. The foundational requirements of section
1280 have not been satisfied.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled. I will admit it.
(City's Exhibits 32 was
marked into evidence and is
bound separately)
MS. AUN: That is the last of the police reports
that Detective Jones authored, so I would turn the
witness over to Mr. Jamieson for cross - examination.
CROSS - EXAMINATION
BY MR, JAMIESON:
Q. Detective Jones, at the beginning of your
testimony today you indicated that the reason for the
initiation of your investigation was as a result of some
type of allegation or complaint; is that right?
A. Yes.
MS. AILIN: Objection; I -- mischaracterizes the
witness' testimony, but go ahead.
MR. JAMIESON: Any time I mischaracterize something
you think that was said, you let me know, but rm just
telling you what I heard.
Q. So what initiated your involvement in this
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investigation is that somebody asked you to do
something, fair?
A. Yes.
Q. Who asked you initially to begin the
investigation?
A. That would be my supervisor.
Q. And who was that?
A. Sergeant Ron Vallercamp.
Q. What did Sergeant Ron Vallercamp tell you and
what did he tell about the Fury location at that time?
A. I don't remember the exact date. He had
mentioned some reports we had been receiving from patrol
officers that work the area, arrest reports from
complaints and that there was quite a bit of activity
being generated from this one location, that due to my
current assignment, 1 needed to look into it and see
what was going there.
Q. Did you ever review any of the documents prior
to going out on November 2nd of 2007?
MS. AILIN: Objection; what document?
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. The document you just referenced.
A. Yes.
Q. How soon before November 2nd, 2007 did you
review any documents in preparation for your
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investigation of Fury?
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that are taken — most reports that are taken at the
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police department, and again, due to my current
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assignment, I was privy to these reports, and so t was
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— I don't know the exact date or time, but when a !
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location generates a lot of response or time from the
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police department, l collect the reports, and then I
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start looking at them. So at that time 1 was keeping
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the reports, and all of a sudden when people from
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outside like my boss or we are getting somebody from
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patrol perhaps would come to us and say, you know what,
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we are spending a lot time at this one location, and
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then I will go back and look my file and we what kind
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of reports were being generated.
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Q. Your assignment for the Newport Beach Police
Department in 2007 was in the vice detail; is that
right?
A. Yes.
Q. And when did you first become assigned to the
vice detail?
A. Two and a half years ago.
Q. So two and a half years ago would have been at
this point around 2006?
A. Correct.
Q. So would it be fair to say that you were a
member of the vice detail certainly from the
spring/summer of 2007 until currently?
A. Correct.
Q. And you have not had any other assignments for
the Newport Beach Police Department outside of that time
period?
A. Correct.
Q. How many other people from the spring or
summer of 2007, let's say June of 2007 until now, are
generally part of the vice detail?
MS. AB.NI: Objection; relevance.
TILE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled. It's a straight
question.
THE WITNESS: Just the partner and myself that
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Q. Vice and intell?
A. Yes.
Q. What does intell mean?
A. Intelligence.
Q. What does intelligence mean in the parlance of
Newport Beach Police Department?
A. Information.
Q. In terms of intell and information, what kind
of duties do you have, just basic general information?
A. Things that will be of concern to the city.
Like terrorism would be a good example on, you know,
certain targets or information that there might be a
terrorist attack or information leading to a school or
something like that, that is information we would like
to have, and we can see if we can get that provided.
Q. And in your capacity as an intell officer, you
would then disseminate that information to whatever
other parts of Newport Beach Police Department or
otherwise within the city might be necessary, fair?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, as far as the vice detail is concerned,
you and your partner, what was the name of your partner
during that time period?
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estimate, if you can. So do you have any estimate as to
how many locations in the City of Newport Beach were
serving alcohol presumed to have an on -sale license and
were providing any Type of live entertainment during
that time period?
MS. AILIN: Objection; relevance.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Asked and answered. 1 drink
he already said he doesn't know and he can't estimate.
MR. JAMIESON: Well, actually, Your Honor, he said
that he didn't know overall for the number of vice --
strike that -- for the number of alcohol
establisPonents. My current question right now is the
number of alcohol establishments that provide live
entertainment. I think that narrows it down
substantially, and that's what I want to talk about
because this is a live entertainment establishment.
MS. AUN: Objection; relevance. We are here
about revoking one specific establishments use permit
We are not here to start comparing whether Fury is a
bigger problem or smaller problem than some other
establishment, which I believe this is the direction
this is going to go.
MR. JAMIESON: No, we are here to talk about
revoking the conditional use permit of rights that are
constitutionally protected for a multi- dollar business,
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and I think we have a right to go into whether or not
the two members of the vice department for the City of
Newport Beach have other things that they do during that
time and what drew their attention to this location and
why this location tended to be important at that given
time. Therefore, if there are other establishments that
have live entertainment and he can estimate it, I think
it's relevant, and this is cross- examination.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay.
MS. AILIN: Then ask him why this establishment,
not how many others there are.
MR. JAMIESON: I will ask my questions my way, and
if you want to object to it and the hearing officer
rules on it, 1 will abide by that ruling, but I will ask
my questions my way.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled, but focus on this
and then move forward.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
Q. Do you remember the question?
A. I do. No.
Q. You don't have any estimate?
A. No, sir.
Q. Are you aware of any other locations that have
live entertainment within the city of Newport Beach?
A. Yes.
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estimate, if you can. So do you have any estimate as to
how many locations in the City of Newport Beach were
serving alcohol presumed to have an on -sale license and
were providing any Type of live entertainment during
that time period?
MS. AILIN: Objection; relevance.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Asked and answered. 1 drink
he already said he doesn't know and he can't estimate.
MR. JAMIESON: Well, actually, Your Honor, he said
that he didn't know overall for the number of vice --
strike that -- for the number of alcohol
establisPonents. My current question right now is the
number of alcohol establishments that provide live
entertainment. I think that narrows it down
substantially, and that's what I want to talk about
because this is a live entertainment establishment.
MS. AUN: Objection; relevance. We are here
about revoking one specific establishments use permit
We are not here to start comparing whether Fury is a
bigger problem or smaller problem than some other
establishment, which I believe this is the direction
this is going to go.
MR. JAMIESON: No, we are here to talk about
revoking the conditional use permit of rights that are
constitutionally protected for a multi- dollar business,
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and I think we have a right to go into whether or not
the two members of the vice department for the City of
Newport Beach have other things that they do during that
time and what drew their attention to this location and
why this location tended to be important at that given
time. Therefore, if there are other establishments that
have live entertainment and he can estimate it, I think
it's relevant, and this is cross- examination.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay.
MS. AILIN: Then ask him why this establishment,
not how many others there are.
MR. JAMIESON: I will ask my questions my way, and
if you want to object to it and the hearing officer
rules on it, 1 will abide by that ruling, but I will ask
my questions my way.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled, but focus on this
and then move forward.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
Q. Do you remember the question?
A. I do. No.
Q. You don't have any estimate?
A. No, sir.
Q. Are you aware of any other locations that have
live entertainment within the city of Newport Beach?
A. Yes.
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estimate, if you can. So do you have any estimate as to
how many locations in the City of Newport Beach were
serving alcohol presumed to have an on -sale license and
were providing any Type of live entertainment during
that time period?
MS. AILIN: Objection; relevance.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Asked and answered. 1 drink
he already said he doesn't know and he can't estimate.
MR. JAMIESON: Well, actually, Your Honor, he said
that he didn't know overall for the number of vice --
strike that -- for the number of alcohol
establisPonents. My current question right now is the
number of alcohol establishments that provide live
entertainment. I think that narrows it down
substantially, and that's what I want to talk about
because this is a live entertainment establishment.
MS. AUN: Objection; relevance. We are here
about revoking one specific establishments use permit
We are not here to start comparing whether Fury is a
bigger problem or smaller problem than some other
establishment, which I believe this is the direction
this is going to go.
MR. JAMIESON: No, we are here to talk about
revoking the conditional use permit of rights that are
constitutionally protected for a multi- dollar business,
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and I think we have a right to go into whether or not
the two members of the vice department for the City of
Newport Beach have other things that they do during that
time and what drew their attention to this location and
why this location tended to be important at that given
time. Therefore, if there are other establishments that
have live entertainment and he can estimate it, I think
it's relevant, and this is cross- examination.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay.
MS. AILIN: Then ask him why this establishment,
not how many others there are.
MR. JAMIESON: I will ask my questions my way, and
if you want to object to it and the hearing officer
rules on it, 1 will abide by that ruling, but I will ask
my questions my way.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled, but focus on this
and then move forward.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you.
Q. Do you remember the question?
A. I do. No.
Q. You don't have any estimate?
A. No, sir.
Q. Are you aware of any other locations that have
live entertainment within the city of Newport Beach?
A. Yes.
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Q. So this Exhibit 6, the first page is a site
plan that reflects what's identified here as Hamburger
Mary's, but you understand that that is now and during
the time of questioning was Fury, right?
A. Correct
MS. AILIN: Could I makc a suggestion, that we use
one of the pages in Exhibit 7, which is actually the
site plans for Fury,! The second page also shows the
parking lot.
MR. JAMIESON: Fair enough.
Q. Directing your attention to Exhibit 7, which
is a site plan that depicts the Fury business location
along with the parking lot, MacArthur Avenue and then
two other locations that reflect existing restaurants,
one to the north, one to the east, and then Fury being
at the south end of the parking lot; is that a fair
description?
A. Yes.
Q. When you pulled up and you saw the 20 orange
cones in the parking lot, where on this site plan would
you identify where those cones were located?
A. The directions we use for what — they were
using for north, we were using west, so they were
actually to the business south — based on the
directions on this, south of this lot, which is not on
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3 Q. Where on the diagram is Classic Q?
4 A. Classic Q is going to be on the north corner.
5 Q. And then Saagar would be, then, on the east
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9 Q. I'm sorry. You are right. I'm wrong. On the
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11 A. Correct.
12 Q. And then MacArthur then borders this whole
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15 Q. Now, in your report you say that you
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19 MR JAMIESON: For now.
20 THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay.
21 MR JAMIESON: For now. For now.
22 Q. In your report you state that you maintained
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24 area about 60 feet from Fury Lounge?
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plan that reflects what's identified here as Hamburger
Mary's, but you understand that that is now and during
the time of questioning was Fury, right?
A. Correct
MS. AILIN: Could I makc a suggestion, that we use
one of the pages in Exhibit 7, which is actually the
site plans for Fury,! The second page also shows the
parking lot.
MR. JAMIESON: Fair enough.
Q. Directing your attention to Exhibit 7, which
is a site plan that depicts the Fury business location
along with the parking lot, MacArthur Avenue and then
two other locations that reflect existing restaurants,
one to the north, one to the east, and then Fury being
at the south end of the parking lot; is that a fair
description?
A. Yes.
Q. When you pulled up and you saw the 20 orange
cones in the parking lot, where on this site plan would
you identify where those cones were located?
A. The directions we use for what — they were
using for north, we were using west, so they were
actually to the business south — based on the
directions on this, south of this lot, which is not on
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3 Q. Where on the diagram is Classic Q?
4 A. Classic Q is going to be on the north corner.
5 Q. And then Saagar would be, then, on the east
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9 Q. I'm sorry. You are right. I'm wrong. On the
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11 A. Correct.
12 Q. And then MacArthur then borders this whole
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15 Q. Now, in your report you say that you
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19 MR JAMIESON: For now.
20 THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay.
21 MR JAMIESON: For now. For now.
22 Q. In your report you state that you maintained
23 observation of Fury Lounge from the south common
24 area about 60 feet from Fury Lounge?
25 A. Correct
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A. Correct.
THE DARING OFFICER: Are those all the reports --
is yew answerjust now for all of these reports?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
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Q. So directing your attention back into November
2nd, 2007, in your report you indicate that you
maintained observation from the south common parking
area.
Based on your statement a few minutes ago,
what I would take that to mean would be that you were
observing what occurred from that area that was the
parking lot depicted to the south of the building; is
that true?
A. No. Based on these different directions, it
changes, so when 1 say south, that will mean west.
THE HEARING OFFICER: So you focus in on where you
want to go with this —
MR. JAMIESON: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- where you're headed?
MR. JAMIESON: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- with this line?
MR. JAMIESON: Sure. I want to point out what he
observed, where he observed it from, and I don't
understand that from the report, nor do I —
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MIL JAMIESON: Okay.
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- so we can keep it moving.
MR. JAMIESON: Sue.
Q. Take a look at Exhibit No. 7, second page,
looking at the diagram there. Where on that page were
you maintaining your observation from?
A. Near the Saagar restaurant on the west end of
the lot
Q. And near what part of the Saagar restaurant?
A. It would be near the south side part facing
east, which will be facing toward the Fury restaurant
Q. In one of those six spaces there?
A. There are a whole bunch of spaces that were
available. I don't remember exactly —
Q. Point out —
A. These are all spaces here, all spaces
available (indicating). I was over in this general area
around there.
Q. All right So you were actually —
MS. AB.IN: For the record, the witness -- for the
record, the witness is pointing to puking spaces that
appear on the page -- page 2 of 4 in Exhibit 7 just
below some spaces that are marked with the letters HC
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THE DARING OFFICER: Are those all the reports --
is yew answerjust now for all of these reports?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. So directing your attention back into November
2nd, 2007, in your report you indicate that you
maintained observation from the south common parking
area.
Based on your statement a few minutes ago,
what I would take that to mean would be that you were
observing what occurred from that area that was the
parking lot depicted to the south of the building; is
that true?
A. No. Based on these different directions, it
changes, so when 1 say south, that will mean west.
THE HEARING OFFICER: So you focus in on where you
want to go with this —
MR. JAMIESON: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- where you're headed?
MR. JAMIESON: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- with this line?
MR. JAMIESON: Sure. I want to point out what he
observed, where he observed it from, and I don't
understand that from the report, nor do I —
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Let him show us --
MIL JAMIESON: Okay.
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- so we can keep it moving.
MR. JAMIESON: Sue.
Q. Take a look at Exhibit No. 7, second page,
looking at the diagram there. Where on that page were
you maintaining your observation from?
A. Near the Saagar restaurant on the west end of
the lot
Q. And near what part of the Saagar restaurant?
A. It would be near the south side part facing
east, which will be facing toward the Fury restaurant
Q. In one of those six spaces there?
A. There are a whole bunch of spaces that were
available. I don't remember exactly —
Q. Point out —
A. These are all spaces here, all spaces
available (indicating). I was over in this general area
around there.
Q. All right So you were actually —
MS. AB.IN: For the record, the witness -- for the
record, the witness is pointing to puking spaces that
appear on the page -- page 2 of 4 in Exhibit 7 just
below some spaces that are marked with the letters HC
for handicapped.
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4 Q. Did you, Detective Jones, during the course 4
5 of the evening — strike that. 5
6 Now long did you maintain that position? 6
7 A. I was parked there — Pra pretty sure 1 was 7
8 parked there the whole night. I may have gotten out and 8
9 walked around a couple times, but my vehicle stayed 9
10 there. 10
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14 of nights — I did not walk around each night, but 14
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16 night I did and didn't. 16
17 Q. And you left that night at about what time? 17
18 A. 1'd have to check. I think it was around 18
19 1:00, 2:00 in the morning, something like that. 19
20 Q. Now, the plant here that was immediately in 20
21 front of your car as depicted in the diagram, does that 21
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23 A. Yes. 23
24 Q. Was that shrubbery any higher than your car? 24
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5 Q. And was Classic Q open for business that 5
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7 A. Yes. 7
8 Q. Did Classic Q offer any music or entertainment a
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10 A. Not that I understood or could hear. 10
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12 beverage licenses for on sale consumption, correct? 12
13 A. You know, I don't know about Saagar. I assume 13
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18 it and submitted it up to your supervisor? 18
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20 Q. There is a reference on page 2 of your report, 20
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22 about 9:44 p.m. Do you we that." 22
23 A. Yes. 23
24 Q. Do you remember that incident? 24
25 A. Yes. 25
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Q. And did you observe where this particular
person came from before you heard him saying "Chug it "?
A. When they first drew my attention to them,
they are walling, and I'm using, of course, the
directions on, I believe —
MS. AIIJN: Exhibit 7.
THE WITNESS: Exhibit 7. They were walling south
through the puking lot on the -- I can't describe the
parking lot -- on the -- directly in front of my
Position, and they were walling south, and so I saw them
probably -- they were maybe -- first I saw them, maybe
20, 30 feet from me, so they were in the packing lot
waking south when I first observed them. Where they
came from, that I cant tell.
Q. They were walking toward Fury?
A Correct.
Q. But you don't know where they were coming
from?
A. Correct.
Q. Detective Jones, is it correct that you got no
complaints from any surrounding residents or members of
the public about anything that you observed on November
2nd,2007?
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MR. JAMIESON: Then I guess he didn't get any
complaints from any residential people surrounding the
area.
Q. Is it correct, Detective Jones, that you got
no complaints from any surrounding residents or members
of the public about things that occurred November 2nd?
A. Correct.
Q. Is it also correct, Detective Jones, that many
of the people that you identified or at least talked
about here in this report of November 2nd were
attempting to utilize or utilizing taxicabs as opposed
to driving their own vehicles?
A. Did you say many?
Q. In your report, just talking about in your
report, what you reflect in your report, it looks like a
lot of taxicab references. I'm asking you is it correct
that many of these people that you have identified or
talked about in your report were either attempting to or
were utilizing taxicabs?
A. That's not correct.
Q. Is it true that your report of November 2nd,
2007 reflects neither any arrests, nor detentions?
A. Correct. Actually that was an incorrect
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Q. What is the relevance of that date in the
context of this document?
A. What happened was —and that was just a
clerical issue. As far as documenting these cases —
before on the other report I have done an employee's
report, but to accurately document that it was decided
that we should go ahead and complete a crime report,
which is what we are looking at right now, so this crime
report was — it's just a face page for documentation
purposes. It's completed at a much later datejust for
tracking purposes within our own system
Q. And so this particular report that is page 1,
Exhibit 28, was actually produced on December 27, but
it's referencing something that occurred according to
what is stated here on November 9, 2007, a Friday at
2100 and November 10, 2007, a Saturday at two o'clock,
correct?
A. You know what, forgive me on that one. I have
not used these references in a couple days. 1 j ust want
to make sure I was clear on what you meant. If you
could just go back one more time for me.
Q. Sure. The date and time that this report was
prepared was approximately December 27, 2007 at eleven
o'clock in the morning, correct?
A. Correct
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Q. Immediately below that it stated, "Occurred on
or between" and then there are a couple dates there. Do
you see that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What is the relevance of those data in the
context of this page?
A. Okay. Yeah, those are the dates that would
have been the dates of our observations, that — so we
were at — that's the date and time that I conducted the
surveillance, so it was on November 9th, Friday, at
about 9:00 p.m, and it concluded November 1011,
Saturday at about 2:00 in the morning.
Q. Okay. So to the extent that this particular
page is referencing things that occurred that you have
said that you observed, the report was actually filled
out ten weeks after the fact, that one page, right?
A. No, I don't refer to this as a report It's
just a face sheet of a crime sheet. My report was done
on the I Oth.
Q. Fair enough. Down at the bottom, though,
where it says — where you say M.O., observe any unusual
actions, do you see that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. There is a statement there that says,
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Q. What is the relevance of that date in the
context of this document?
A. What happened was —and that was just a
clerical issue. As far as documenting these cases —
before on the other report I have done an employee's
report, but to accurately document that it was decided
that we should go ahead and complete a crime report,
which is what we are looking at right now, so this crime
report was — it's just a face page for documentation
purposes. It's completed at a much later datejust for
tracking purposes within our own system
Q. And so this particular report that is page 1,
Exhibit 28, was actually produced on December 27, but
it's referencing something that occurred according to
what is stated here on November 9, 2007, a Friday at
2100 and November 10, 2007, a Saturday at two o'clock,
correct?
A. You know what, forgive me on that one. I have
not used these references in a couple days. 1 j ust want
to make sure I was clear on what you meant. If you
could just go back one more time for me.
Q. Sure. The date and time that this report was
prepared was approximately December 27, 2007 at eleven
o'clock in the morning, correct?
A. Correct
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Q. Immediately below that it stated, "Occurred on
or between" and then there are a couple dates there. Do
you see that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What is the relevance of those data in the
context of this page?
A. Okay. Yeah, those are the dates that would
have been the dates of our observations, that — so we
were at — that's the date and time that I conducted the
surveillance, so it was on November 9th, Friday, at
about 9:00 p.m, and it concluded November 1011,
Saturday at about 2:00 in the morning.
Q. Okay. So to the extent that this particular
page is referencing things that occurred that you have
said that you observed, the report was actually filled
out ten weeks after the fact, that one page, right?
A. No, I don't refer to this as a report It's
just a face sheet of a crime sheet. My report was done
on the I Oth.
Q. Fair enough. Down at the bottom, though,
where it says — where you say M.O., observe any unusual
actions, do you see that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. There is a statement there that says,
"Suspects operate their place of business outside the
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just --
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's the ruling. Let's
move On.
MR. JAMIESON: -- discussing it.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Please move on.
BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Now, with respect to the conclusion that your
report draws that we just talked about, did you visit
the Fury site at any time between November 9, 2007 and
in the morning of November 10,1 guess, and December 27
of2007?
A. Yes.
Q. But your visitor visits to Fury during that
time are not reflected in Exhibit 28, the report that
you provided; is that right?
A. Correct, it's a business of a different
nature.
Q. So the other visits that you made to the Fury
after November — after the morning — the early morning
hours of November 10, 2007 and before this report was
prepared December 27, 2007 are not depicted in any
report that we have identified and looked at today,
right?
A. Correct.
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Q. How many times, approximately, did you visit
Fury during that time period?
A. I would drive by around lunchtime on a few
occasions. I would say no less than three, no more than
six.
Q. Let me draw your attention to the second page
of Exhibit 28. Now we are talking about November 9,
2007, and it indicates that you and Detective Graham and
Raymond Exams, E-s-a- r-o-s, and Detective Stark arrived
at about 8:30; is that right?
A. Correct
Q. And on that particular occasion Raymond Esaros
actually went inside and ate dinner, true?
A. Correct. Well, I should say they went inside.
I actually don't recall if they ale dinner or not.
Q. But their purpose forgoing inside was to eat
dinner?
A. Correct.
Q. They had dinner reservations?
A. Correct.
Q. At the bottom of that particular page you
reference an observation you had that about five young
adult females walked up and were not carded; is that
right?
A. Sounds correct. What page are you on?
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BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Now, with respect to the conclusion that your
report draws that we just talked about, did you visit
the Fury site at any time between November 9, 2007 and
in the morning of November 10,1 guess, and December 27
of2007?
A. Yes.
Q. But your visitor visits to Fury during that
time are not reflected in Exhibit 28, the report that
you provided; is that right?
A. Correct, it's a business of a different
nature.
Q. So the other visits that you made to the Fury
after November — after the morning — the early morning
hours of November 10, 2007 and before this report was
prepared December 27, 2007 are not depicted in any
report that we have identified and looked at today,
right?
A. Correct.
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Q. How many times, approximately, did you visit
Fury during that time period?
A. I would drive by around lunchtime on a few
occasions. I would say no less than three, no more than
six.
Q. Let me draw your attention to the second page
of Exhibit 28. Now we are talking about November 9,
2007, and it indicates that you and Detective Graham and
Raymond Exams, E-s-a- r-o-s, and Detective Stark arrived
at about 8:30; is that right?
A. Correct
Q. And on that particular occasion Raymond Esaros
actually went inside and ate dinner, true?
A. Correct. Well, I should say they went inside.
I actually don't recall if they ale dinner or not.
Q. But their purpose forgoing inside was to eat
dinner?
A. Correct.
Q. They had dinner reservations?
A. Correct.
Q. At the bottom of that particular page you
reference an observation you had that about five young
adult females walked up and were not carded; is that
right?
A. Sounds correct. What page are you on?
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any type of documentation to them for violating that
law, did you?
A. No.
Q. By the way, you described certain
circumstances in here where you rendered the opinion
that people were intoxicated; would that be a fair
observation?
A. Yes.
Q. And these are people that you observed outside
in the parking lot, not inside Fury; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. In your position as a vice officer, is it true
to say that it is illegal for people to be drunk in
public?
A. Correct.
Q. Did you issue any of these people citations or
arrest them?
A. No.
Q. Is it correct to say also that serving
intoxicated people would also be a violation of law?
A. Correct.
Q. But you didn't observe anything occur inside
Fury that night, true?
A. Correct.
Q. By the way, you didn't issue any citations to
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Fury that night, did you?
A. Correa, I Issued no citations to anybody. I
didn't detain anybody, and 1 didn't talk to anybody
during any of my observations.
Q. Did you feel when you were observing what
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A. That was actually a misstatement. 1 did talk
to somebody once. 1 apologize. I wasn't trying to give
a wrong answer. 1 was just trying to be helpful.
Q. That's okay. t appreciate that.
On that night of November 9 and 1 guess the
early morning of the November Inth, did you observe any
of these people that you have identified in these
reports as bang in a state of intoxication or having
other problems where you considered them to be a danger
to themselves or to anyone else?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you issue any citations for that?
A. No.
Q. Did you detain any of those people for that?
A. No, they went by themselves.
Q. Was anybody that was there at the Fury that
night or any surrounding residents or any business
owners or any members of the general public complain to
you about whatever occurred at Fury on November 9th and
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any type of documentation to them for violating that
law, did you?
A. No.
Q. By the way, you described certain
circumstances in here where you rendered the opinion
that people were intoxicated; would that be a fair
observation?
A. Yes.
Q. And these are people that you observed outside
in the parking lot, not inside Fury; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. In your position as a vice officer, is it true
to say that it is illegal for people to be drunk in
public?
A. Correct.
Q. Did you issue any of these people citations or
arrest them?
A. No.
Q. Is it correct to say also that serving
intoxicated people would also be a violation of law?
A. Correct.
Q. But you didn't observe anything occur inside
Fury that night, true?
A. Correct.
Q. By the way, you didn't issue any citations to
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A. Correa, I Issued no citations to anybody. I
didn't detain anybody, and 1 didn't talk to anybody
during any of my observations.
Q. Did you feel when you were observing what
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A. That was actually a misstatement. 1 did talk
to somebody once. 1 apologize. I wasn't trying to give
a wrong answer. 1 was just trying to be helpful.
Q. That's okay. t appreciate that.
On that night of November 9 and 1 guess the
early morning of the November Inth, did you observe any
of these people that you have identified in these
reports as bang in a state of intoxication or having
other problems where you considered them to be a danger
to themselves or to anyone else?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you issue any citations for that?
A. No.
Q. Did you detain any of those people for that?
A. No, they went by themselves.
Q. Was anybody that was there at the Fury that
night or any surrounding residents or any business
owners or any members of the general public complain to
you about whatever occurred at Fury on November 9th and
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that.
A. Okay.
Q. The document I'm looking at here doesn't
reflect those redactions, but I'm asking was there any
information here that doesn't exist any longer?
A. No.
Q. We can't —
A. Absolutely not. Once you see these two
signatures and once it gets through our system, there
are no changes made on the report. And the redactions
which were done by the city attorney's office were
completed after they got our completed reports, went
through our records system, it's memorialized and can't
be changed.
Q. All right. Now, looking at this report, which
was prepared somewhere around January 25th or perhaps
January 26th, the reference that you make on the front
page to "Suspects operate place of business outside the
provisions set forth by the City Newport Beach," that's
your language, correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you visit Fury at any time between
December 27th — strike that
Did you visit Fury at any time between
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Did you visit Fury at any time between
December 27th, the date you filled out the previous
report, and January 20th, 2008?
A. No.
Q. When you are working vice, did you always work
with Detective Stark? That's kind of an overbroad
question. Let me withdraw and try that again.
At any time that you would have visited the
Fury, would you have been visiting it with
Detective Stark?
A. Oh, I wasn't by myself.
Q. Is it possible, based on the way you operate
with Detective Stark, that he visits locations when you
are not present ?.
A. Yes.
Q. So when you rendered the opinion on January
25th, 2008 that "The suspect" — I gather you mean
Fury — "operate their place of business outside the
provisions set forth by the City of Newport Beach," you
weren't basing that on any information you observed or
any incidents you observed between December 27th and
January 25th, were you?
A. It was based on observations made that night.
Q. That one particular night?
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that.
A. Okay.
Q. The document I'm looking at here doesn't
reflect those redactions, but I'm asking was there any
information here that doesn't exist any longer?
A. No.
Q. We can't —
A. Absolutely not. Once you see these two
signatures and once it gets through our system, there
are no changes made on the report. And the redactions
which were done by the city attorney's office were
completed after they got our completed reports, went
through our records system, it's memorialized and can't
be changed.
Q. All right. Now, looking at this report, which
was prepared somewhere around January 25th or perhaps
January 26th, the reference that you make on the front
page to "Suspects operate place of business outside the
provisions set forth by the City Newport Beach," that's
your language, correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you visit Fury at any time between
December 27th — strike that
Did you visit Fury at any time between
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Did you visit Fury at any time between
December 27th, the date you filled out the previous
report, and January 20th, 2008?
A. No.
Q. When you are working vice, did you always work
with Detective Stark? That's kind of an overbroad
question. Let me withdraw and try that again.
At any time that you would have visited the
Fury, would you have been visiting it with
Detective Stark?
A. Oh, I wasn't by myself.
Q. Is it possible, based on the way you operate
with Detective Stark, that he visits locations when you
are not present ?.
A. Yes.
Q. So when you rendered the opinion on January
25th, 2008 that "The suspect" — I gather you mean
Fury — "operate their place of business outside the
provisions set forth by the City of Newport Beach," you
weren't basing that on any information you observed or
any incidents you observed between December 27th and
January 25th, were you?
A. It was based on observations made that night.
Q. That one particular night?
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BY MR. JAMIESON:
Q. Exhibit 32 for me is 33208, DR No. 08- 02232.
Exhibit 31 is 08- 01078. Exhibit 31 is this one.
MS. AILIN: All right. And if you turn to the
second page of what I handed you, you will see that it's
the first page of what you have without the redaction.
MR. JAMIESON: Thank you. So I have both versions
is what you are telling me.
Q. So looking at the nonredacted version of
Exhibit 31, Exhibit 31 says that the date and time
reported is January 31, 2008, the very first page,
right?
A. Correct.
Q. However, the balance of that first page
appears to be substantially similar to Exhibit 29 to me.
Can you take a look at the first page of Exhibit 29?
A. I'm familiar with it.
Q. Why is there a second report here with a
different date and time reported?
A. I superimposed the date.
Q. What does that mean?
A. That means when f put the closing time, I put
the wrong dates.
Q. So Exhibit 31 is actually a corrected version
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purportedly to get dinner, right?
A. Two of them did and one stayed out.
Q. On January 31st did you ever go inside the
premises?
A. No.
Q. Is it correct that you did not observe at any
time while you were at Fury from 9:30 p.m on January
31st, 2008 until you concluded your observations
according to the report at one o'clock a.m. anything —
withdraw.
Were you at Fury continuously from 9:30 on
January 31st until one o'clock in the morning on the
next morning February Ist?
A. Yes.
THE HEARING OFFICER: It was two o'clock.
MR. JAMIESON: No, one o'clock. It says one
dclock.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What page says one o'clock?
rm sorry. (just want to make sure.
MR. JAMIESON: Page 3.
THE HEARING OFFICER: This page says two o'clock.
MR. JAMIESON: Right, but he has indicated that
that information is incorrect.
Q. Right?
A. Correct, it is incorrect.
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BY MR, JAMIESON:
Q. So looking at the —
THE HEARING OFFICER: This is a one -day report from
1 -31 at 9:00 p.m, until the next morning at 1:00 am,
correct?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
BY MR, JAMIESON:
Q. And during that entire time you observed
whatever it is you observed and wrote down what you
observed In this report, right?
A. Correct.
Q. And you did not issue any citations, nor did
you detain any people; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. And other than the two male subjects at
different times urinating in the parking lot somewhere,
you did not see anything that you considered to be —
that you observed that you considered to be Fury
operating its place of business outside the provisions
set forth by the City of Newport Beach; is that correct?
A. Correct.
Q. So the statement that you made on the very
first page of Exhibit 31, "The suspects operate their
place of business outside the provisions set forth by
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purportedly to get dinner, right?
A. Two of them did and one stayed out.
Q. On January 31st did you ever go inside the
premises?
A. No.
Q. Is it correct that you did not observe at any
time while you were at Fury from 9:30 p.m on January
31st, 2008 until you concluded your observations
according to the report at one o'clock a.m. anything —
withdraw.
Were you at Fury continuously from 9:30 on
January 31st until one o'clock in the morning on the
next morning February Ist?
A. Yes.
THE HEARING OFFICER: It was two o'clock.
MR. JAMIESON: No, one o'clock. It says one
dclock.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What page says one o'clock?
rm sorry. (just want to make sure.
MR. JAMIESON: Page 3.
THE HEARING OFFICER: This page says two o'clock.
MR. JAMIESON: Right, but he has indicated that
that information is incorrect.
Q. Right?
A. Correct, it is incorrect.
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Q. So looking at the —
THE HEARING OFFICER: This is a one -day report from
1 -31 at 9:00 p.m, until the next morning at 1:00 am,
correct?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
BY MR, JAMIESON:
Q. And during that entire time you observed
whatever it is you observed and wrote down what you
observed In this report, right?
A. Correct.
Q. And you did not issue any citations, nor did
you detain any people; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. And other than the two male subjects at
different times urinating in the parking lot somewhere,
you did not see anything that you considered to be —
that you observed that you considered to be Fury
operating its place of business outside the provisions
set forth by the City of Newport Beach; is that correct?
A. Correct.
Q. So the statement that you made on the very
first page of Exhibit 31, "The suspects operate their
place of business outside the provisions set forth by
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A. Two of them did and one stayed out.
Q. On January 31st did you ever go inside the
premises?
A. No.
Q. Is it correct that you did not observe at any
time while you were at Fury from 9:30 p.m on January
31st, 2008 until you concluded your observations
according to the report at one o'clock a.m. anything —
withdraw.
Were you at Fury continuously from 9:30 on
January 31st until one o'clock in the morning on the
next morning February Ist?
A. Yes.
THE HEARING OFFICER: It was two o'clock.
MR. JAMIESON: No, one o'clock. It says one
dclock.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What page says one o'clock?
rm sorry. (just want to make sure.
MR. JAMIESON: Page 3.
THE HEARING OFFICER: This page says two o'clock.
MR. JAMIESON: Right, but he has indicated that
that information is incorrect.
Q. Right?
A. Correct, it is incorrect.
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Q. So looking at the —
THE HEARING OFFICER: This is a one -day report from
1 -31 at 9:00 p.m, until the next morning at 1:00 am,
correct?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
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Q. And during that entire time you observed
whatever it is you observed and wrote down what you
observed In this report, right?
A. Correct.
Q. And you did not issue any citations, nor did
you detain any people; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. And other than the two male subjects at
different times urinating in the parking lot somewhere,
you did not see anything that you considered to be —
that you observed that you considered to be Fury
operating its place of business outside the provisions
set forth by the City of Newport Beach; is that correct?
A. Correct.
Q. So the statement that you made on the very
first page of Exhibit 31, "The suspects operate their
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Worry about it later.
MS. AILIN: I e- mailed it to you. I don't have it.
MR. JAMIESON: Oh, is this it (indicating)?
Q. Let's take a look at Exhibit 32, first four
pages. Now, this Exhibit 32, first page references date
and time reported as March 3rd?
A. Correct.
Q. And that would be the date and time that you
filled out this report; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. At about 9:30 in the morning, all true?
A. Yes.
Q. And it's talking about things that you
observed from Friday night at nine o'clock on February
29th to approximately 1:30 — it says p.m. on Saturday,
March 1st. Is that p.m. reference correct?
A. No.
Q. So it was actually 1:30 a.m. on Saturday?
A. Correct.
Q. On that particular evening of February 29th,
did you have — with your observations in the past,
remain outside the building?
A. Yes.
Q. That would be true during the entire time that
you were at Fury that night, true?
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Q. Your report references that Sergeant Ron
Vallercamp along with Detective Elijah Hayward, Darrin
Joe and you went to Fury. Is that the first time on
February 29 that Sergeant Ron Vallemamp, to your
knowledge, with you present visited Fury?
A. I believe so, yes.
Q. To your knowledge, did Vallercamp stay outside
the building or did he go in at some point?
A. Outside.
Q. Did any of your group go inside, to your
knowledge?
A. Yes.
Q. And that would be Hayward and Joe?
A. Correct.
Q. On that particular night of February 29, did
you go to Fury as a result of a call for service from
somebody either at the location or a member of the
public, somebody other than a Newport Beach police
officer?
A. No.
Q. On page 2 of the report, which is actually the
third page of this exhibit, you referenced that you and
Sergeant Vallercamp made numerous observations, things
such as public urination. For anybody that you observed
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Worry about it later.
MS. AILIN: I e- mailed it to you. I don't have it.
MR. JAMIESON: Oh, is this it (indicating)?
Q. Let's take a look at Exhibit 32, first four
pages. Now, this Exhibit 32, first page references date
and time reported as March 3rd?
A. Correct.
Q. And that would be the date and time that you
filled out this report; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. At about 9:30 in the morning, all true?
A. Yes.
Q. And it's talking about things that you
observed from Friday night at nine o'clock on February
29th to approximately 1:30 — it says p.m. on Saturday,
March 1st. Is that p.m. reference correct?
A. No.
Q. So it was actually 1:30 a.m. on Saturday?
A. Correct.
Q. On that particular evening of February 29th,
did you have — with your observations in the past,
remain outside the building?
A. Yes.
Q. That would be true during the entire time that
you were at Fury that night, true?
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A. True.
Q. Your report references that Sergeant Ron
Vallercamp along with Detective Elijah Hayward, Darrin
Joe and you went to Fury. Is that the first time on
February 29 that Sergeant Ron Vallemamp, to your
knowledge, with you present visited Fury?
A. I believe so, yes.
Q. To your knowledge, did Vallercamp stay outside
the building or did he go in at some point?
A. Outside.
Q. Did any of your group go inside, to your
knowledge?
A. Yes.
Q. And that would be Hayward and Joe?
A. Correct.
Q. On that particular night of February 29, did
you go to Fury as a result of a call for service from
somebody either at the location or a member of the
public, somebody other than a Newport Beach police
officer?
A. No.
Q. On page 2 of the report, which is actually the
third page of this exhibit, you referenced that you and
Sergeant Vallercamp made numerous observations, things
such as public urination. For anybody that you observed
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picked it up. Looked at it and smelled it, and it was
beer and — Coors Light, and it smelled like Coors Light
beer. 1 poured it out. It foamed up, and it looked
like Coors Light beer.
Q. Prior to that moment in time you didn't see
these people come out of Fury, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And prior to that time you don't know where
People were drinking, correct?
A. No.
Q. And there were no arrests or detentions as a
result of your observations of the group you just
described?
A. Correct.
Q. By the way, going back to the public
intoxication. Did you feel that anybody that you
observed that you thought was publicly intoxicated was a
danger to himself or others?
A. No, because they were with somebody who was
able to — appeared — in all appearances to care for
them
Q. Did you have any conversation with any of the
people that you believed had the ability to care for
someone you thought to be intoxicated?
A. No.
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Q. You identified littering. That you observed.
Did the people that you — well, strike that.
Did you actually observe people throwing
things on the ground or are you talking about open
containers that somebody left on the ground?
A. Yes to both.
Q. And did you observe any of the people that
appeared to be working for Fury at any time that night,
although you were only there until about 1:30, throw
things out in the parking lot?
A. No.
Q. Would you agree that any time that there are
groups of people in parking lots that there is going to
be some litter in your observations of various locations
in the City of Newport Beach?
MS. A1LIN: Objection; relevancy, calls for
speculation. We have sat through an awful lot of this.
What we are really hearing here is a deposition, not
hearing testimony.
MR. JAMIESON: f think we are hearing a lot of
testimony. I think this is exactly what I'm able to
do. I was not able to obtain subpoenas to compel people
to come in to testify about varioas things.
MS. AILIN: And then we are going to be here
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picked it up. Looked at it and smelled it, and it was
beer and — Coors Light, and it smelled like Coors Light
beer. 1 poured it out. It foamed up, and it looked
like Coors Light beer.
Q. Prior to that moment in time you didn't see
these people come out of Fury, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And prior to that time you don't know where
People were drinking, correct?
A. No.
Q. And there were no arrests or detentions as a
result of your observations of the group you just
described?
A. Correct.
Q. By the way, going back to the public
intoxication. Did you feel that anybody that you
observed that you thought was publicly intoxicated was a
danger to himself or others?
A. No, because they were with somebody who was
able to — appeared — in all appearances to care for
them
Q. Did you have any conversation with any of the
people that you believed had the ability to care for
someone you thought to be intoxicated?
A. No.
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Did the people that you — well, strike that.
Did you actually observe people throwing
things on the ground or are you talking about open
containers that somebody left on the ground?
A. Yes to both.
Q. And did you observe any of the people that
appeared to be working for Fury at any time that night,
although you were only there until about 1:30, throw
things out in the parking lot?
A. No.
Q. Would you agree that any time that there are
groups of people in parking lots that there is going to
be some litter in your observations of various locations
in the City of Newport Beach?
MS. A1LIN: Objection; relevancy, calls for
speculation. We have sat through an awful lot of this.
What we are really hearing here is a deposition, not
hearing testimony.
MR. JAMIESON: f think we are hearing a lot of
testimony. I think this is exactly what I'm able to
do. I was not able to obtain subpoenas to compel people
to come in to testify about varioas things.
MS. AILIN: And then we are going to be here
another six months.
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business, who have constitutionally protected properly
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A. Well, there is a discussion of something used
In law enforcement, that we can't possibly enforce every
single law that Is on the books. To do so would quite
frankly just clog the system. In this particular case
we were trying to focus on what was going on with this
particular establishment. If there was something that
was life threatening or endangering, we either call
somebody in to take care of it or I made arritagements
earlier on to have somebody tell them, well, the
surrounding areas, uniform police officers. If we let
people go who look like they have got a sober person
with them or whatever, there would be some officers in
the area that could deal with them if it were to go
anywhere further outside of my view.
Q. Would it be fair to say if you had popped out
of your car and started citing people, that would have
compromised your status as an undercover for purposes of
this investigation?
A. Yes.
Q. Would It be fair to say that what you wanted
to see was what going on at Fury?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; leading. Obviously
leading.
I apologize for breaking in. These are
leading questions. Would it be fair to say this, this
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Well, proceed with that
question.
BY MS. ALLAN:
Q. Would it be fair to say that what you wanted
to see — excuse me — was how Fury operates when Fury
doesn't know that somebody is watching?
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; leading.
THE 14EARING OFFICER Overruled. You may answer
the question.
THE WITNESS: Yes.
BY MS. AB.IN:
Q. Mr. Jamieson asked you a number of times if on
the date that you went to Fury you were there in
response to complaints from members of the public. Are
you the person that the public would contact if they had
complaints about what is going on at Fury?
A. Not typically.
Q. Who would they contact?
A. Usually dispatch or watch commander.
MS. ARAN: I have no further questions.
MR. JAMIESON: Just a couple of questions if I
may.
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BY MS. AI.IN:
Q. Please state and spell your name for the
record.
A. David Stark, last name, S- t -a -r -k
Q. And, Mr. Stark, how are you employed?
A. I'm employed as a detective with the Newport
Beach Police Department
Q. And how long have you been with Newport Beach
Police Department?
A. Approximately four years.
Q. Were you a police officer elsewhere before
that?
A. Yes, I was.
Q. And where were you an officer before that?
A. I was a deputy sheriff at the Alameda County
sheriffs office for over eight years.
Q. And what is your assignment within the Newport
Beach Police Department?
A. Currently I'm a detective in the vice and
intelligence unit.
Q. And in the course of your duties have you been
involved in an investigation of whether Fury has
complied with its conditions of its use permit?
A. Yes, I have.
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Q. I would like to direct your attention to the
binder in front of you and ask you to turn to Exhibit
No. 26.
A. All right.
Q. And have you seen this document before that we
have marked as Exhibit 26?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. Is this a report that you prepared?
A. Yes, it is.
Q. Was it prepared in the course and scope of
your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes, it was.
Q. When — what is the date of the events that
are reflected in this report?
A. This occurred on Thursday night, October 18.
Q. And when was the report prepared?
A. It was prepared on the 24th, October 2411.
Q. And is the report based on your observations
of the events that took place on October 18th?
A. Yes, it is.
Q. While you were making those observations, did
you take any notes?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. And did you prepare the report from your
notes?
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MS. AU N: Move Exhibit 27 into the evidence.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Same objections?
MR. JAMIESON: Same objections.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
(City's Exhibit 27
was admitted into evidence and is
bound in a separate binder.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: You didn't sign this one
either?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
THE HEARING OFFICER: You did prepare it?
THE WITNESS: Yes, I did.
THE FEARING OFFICER: Where is your name on it?
THE WITNESS: At the bottom right initial D. Stark
and the badge number.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Where it says reporting officer.
There is another item that we are proposing to
use as evidence in this case. We are referring to it as
Exhibit 19, and it's actually not in the binder. It's a
video on a disc —
THE HEARING OFFICE: Okay.
BY MS. AU-IN:
Q. — that Kristi Parker has already testified
she found on the YouTube website. Are you familiar with
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that video?
A. Yes, l am
Q. Have you actually seen the video?
A. Yes, l have.
Q. Did you watch it on disc in the city
attorney's office?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. When did you watch it?
A. This morning, approximately ten o'clock,
10:30.
Q. And have you been inside Fury in the course
and scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. So you are generally familiar with what Fury
looks like on the inside?
A. Yes, I am
Q. And you have also seen Fury from the outside?
A. Correct.
Q. And are you familiar with what Fury look like
from the outside?
A. Correct.
Q. Based on your familiarity with what Fury looks
like outside and inside and based on having viewed the
video this morning, does that video depict both the
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MS. AU N: Move Exhibit 27 into the evidence.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Same objections?
MR. JAMIESON: Same objections.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
(City's Exhibit 27
was admitted into evidence and is
bound in a separate binder.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: You didn't sign this one
either?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
THE HEARING OFFICER: You did prepare it?
THE WITNESS: Yes, I did.
THE FEARING OFFICER: Where is your name on it?
THE WITNESS: At the bottom right initial D. Stark
and the badge number.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Where it says reporting officer.
There is another item that we are proposing to
use as evidence in this case. We are referring to it as
Exhibit 19, and it's actually not in the binder. It's a
video on a disc —
THE HEARING OFFICE: Okay.
BY MS. AU-IN:
Q. — that Kristi Parker has already testified
she found on the YouTube website. Are you familiar with
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that video?
A. Yes, l am
Q. Have you actually seen the video?
A. Yes, l have.
Q. Did you watch it on disc in the city
attorney's office?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. When did you watch it?
A. This morning, approximately ten o'clock,
10:30.
Q. And have you been inside Fury in the course
and scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. So you are generally familiar with what Fury
looks like on the inside?
A. Yes, I am
Q. And you have also seen Fury from the outside?
A. Correct.
Q. And are you familiar with what Fury look like
from the outside?
A. Correct.
Q. Based on your familiarity with what Fury looks
like outside and inside and based on having viewed the
video this morning, does that video depict both the
outside and the inside Fury?
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Q. Did you actually write in or type in this time
of 1:08:01? It seems very specific for something you
type in as opposed to something you perhaps
automatically --
A. It may be automatic, correct.
Q. You don't recall?
A. I don't recall.
Q. Now, the date of October 24 is actually the
date that you sat down — did you type this out
yourself?
A Yes.
Q. Was there ever any versions of this memo that
did include a signature by you?
A. I don't believe so. In fact, now we usually
don't — as 1 said, the initials and the badge numbers
are generally our signature or putting our stamp on it.
Q. Are there initials on this Exhibit 26?
A. No.
Q. With respect to the boxes down below where it
says "please reply" or "no reply" and a box checked no
reply, was that indicating from you to Detective Jones
that you need not — this did not require him to reply
in any way?
A. Correct.
Q. Based on your facial expression right now it
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sound like you are not sure exactly what you intended at
that time.
A. H's not that. It's just automatic. This box
is always checked. This is a way of us documenting on
paper what we did observe, and this was done for various
file purposes.
Q. The file that you brought with you today seem
to include a different copy of this October 18, 2007
memo; is that true?
A. It looks to be identical.
Q. It does, however, have a Post -It on it with
someone's handwriting?
A That's correct.
Q. And is that your handwriting?
A. Yes.
Q. May I take a look at it?
A. Absolutely.
Q. This document you brought with you also has
some highlighting on here for a time and so forth. Is
that your handwriting?
A. That's correct.
Q. And there is handwriting up on top. It seems
to say cue/see inside. Did I read that correctly?
A. That is correct.
Q. Is that your handwriting?
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license photos and seeing the video this morning, is it
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A. That is correct.
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A. I'm sure it was started at that time. That is
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Q. Did you actually write in or type in this time
of 1:08:01? It seems very specific for something you
type in as opposed to something you perhaps
automatically --
A. It may be automatic, correct.
Q. You don't recall?
A. I don't recall.
Q. Now, the date of October 24 is actually the
date that you sat down — did you type this out
yourself?
A Yes.
Q. Was there ever any versions of this memo that
did include a signature by you?
A. I don't believe so. In fact, now we usually
don't — as 1 said, the initials and the badge numbers
are generally our signature or putting our stamp on it.
Q. Are there initials on this Exhibit 26?
A. No.
Q. With respect to the boxes down below where it
says "please reply" or "no reply" and a box checked no
reply, was that indicating from you to Detective Jones
that you need not — this did not require him to reply
in any way?
A. Correct.
Q. Based on your facial expression right now it
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sound like you are not sure exactly what you intended at
that time.
A. H's not that. It's just automatic. This box
is always checked. This is a way of us documenting on
paper what we did observe, and this was done for various
file purposes.
Q. The file that you brought with you today seem
to include a different copy of this October 18, 2007
memo; is that true?
A. It looks to be identical.
Q. It does, however, have a Post -It on it with
someone's handwriting?
A That's correct.
Q. And is that your handwriting?
A. Yes.
Q. May I take a look at it?
A. Absolutely.
Q. This document you brought with you also has
some highlighting on here for a time and so forth. Is
that your handwriting?
A. That's correct.
Q. And there is handwriting up on top. It seems
to say cue/see inside. Did I read that correctly?
A. That is correct.
Q. Is that your handwriting?
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A. I don't recall.
Q. Do you remember reading it before you actually
went there on October 18, 2007?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. And did you ever go to Fury before October I&
2007?
A. I have not — no, I had not been Inside prior
to that
Q. When you went thereon October 18, 2007, did
you go to Fury as a result of someone at the premises
calling you to go there, in other words, a call for
service and you responded?
A. No, this was not in response to a call for
service.
Q. Your visit there was because your sergeant
asked you to go take a look?
A. I don't believe — I don't recall exactly
who. In fact, I don't believe —1 think it was more of
an undercover kind of investigation into a club on this
night regarding narcotics. If anything, this is one of
the evenings we were checking out narcotics activity.
Q. Did you do that for a number of locations —
strike that
Do you commonly as a matter of practice in
your job as vice detective perform undercover
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observations of the various on sale alcohol
establishments in the City of Newport Beach?
A. Yes.
Q. And approximately how often do you try and
visit these on sale establishments?
A It usually — well, I don't want to get into
14 but it's often informant driven and just kind of
what's up at the time, if we have time, if either
informant information, specific informant information,
and specifically working vice and intell, usually it's
with the narcotics detectives. If we are going in for
narcotics related purposes, it's generally the narcotics
guys that take the primary lead in this. I'll just have
plain clothes and go in with them, but if it's more
alcohol condition violations, that's when I take the
lead and it's more my investigation. You asked who lead
the investigation?
Q. Actually I was. Actually I was trying to
figure out why you went there in the first place.
A. Sure.
Q. I think you have adequately answered it. You
were there that night on October 18 from about nine
o'clock and] about 12:40 in the morning; is that right?
A. Uh -huh.
Q. Is that "yes "?
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A. Correct
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we were preparing for the initial scheduled hearing for
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full menu until 2200 hours and then just sushi after
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point in time, did you ever read the conditions of the
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A. I don't recall.
Q. Do you remember reading it before you actually
went there on October 18, 2007?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. And did you ever go to Fury before October I&
2007?
A. I have not — no, I had not been Inside prior
to that
Q. When you went thereon October 18, 2007, did
you go to Fury as a result of someone at the premises
calling you to go there, in other words, a call for
service and you responded?
A. No, this was not in response to a call for
service.
Q. Your visit there was because your sergeant
asked you to go take a look?
A. I don't believe — I don't recall exactly
who. In fact, I don't believe —1 think it was more of
an undercover kind of investigation into a club on this
night regarding narcotics. If anything, this is one of
the evenings we were checking out narcotics activity.
Q. Did you do that for a number of locations —
strike that
Do you commonly as a matter of practice in
your job as vice detective perform undercover
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observations of the various on sale alcohol
establishments in the City of Newport Beach?
A. Yes.
Q. And approximately how often do you try and
visit these on sale establishments?
A It usually — well, I don't want to get into
14 but it's often informant driven and just kind of
what's up at the time, if we have time, if either
informant information, specific informant information,
and specifically working vice and intell, usually it's
with the narcotics detectives. If we are going in for
narcotics related purposes, it's generally the narcotics
guys that take the primary lead in this. I'll just have
plain clothes and go in with them, but if it's more
alcohol condition violations, that's when I take the
lead and it's more my investigation. You asked who lead
the investigation?
Q. Actually I was. Actually I was trying to
figure out why you went there in the first place.
A. Sure.
Q. I think you have adequately answered it. You
were there that night on October 18 from about nine
o'clock and] about 12:40 in the morning; is that right?
A. Uh -huh.
Q. Is that "yes "?
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were you always outside the business?
A. You mean did I go inside the business?
Q. Did you go inside the business?
A. No, l did not.
Q. You were always outside the business?
A. Correct.
Q. You were always in the parking lot somewhere?
A. Correct
Q. Were you in a car by yourself?
A. Yes.
Q. And also at that time you were aware of that
Detective Stark was — I'm sorry — that Detective — I
have forgotten his name.
A. Jones.
Q. Detective Jones was in a car by himself?
A. Correct.
Q. Where was your car located that night?
A. My car was in the row closest to MacArthur
Boulevard approximately 25 yards away from the edge of
the Q.
Q. And that would be the building at the very
opposite end of that parking lot?
A. That is correct.
Q. And was that business open and operating
during the time that you were there?
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A. Yes, it was.
Q. And is there also a third business on that
parking lot?
A Correct.
Q. And that place was called Snagar at the time,
correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, Detective, I notice you are looking at
your report with regard to November 2nd so these things
that you are telling me, do you remember them from your
own independent recollection or are you just telling me
what is stated in your report?
A. A little bit of both. I just wanted to make
sure exactly where I was parked and many other things.
I'm sure some minor details I will refer to my report.
Q. May I take a look at your report?
A. Absolutely.
Q. Also on this report you have highlighted some
items. These are all in your highlighting, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And your report nowhere bears your signature?
A Not the signature, correct.
Q. And it does have a Post4t on it, and the
Post -it reflects your notes that you have written in?
A. Correct.
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available and food service was available although your
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about midnight; is that right?
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occupancy. You couldn't talk without having to yell in
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someone's ear, so it was certainly not quiet. If you
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was a quarter full, and at the end it never approached
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were you always outside the business?
A. You mean did I go inside the business?
Q. Did you go inside the business?
A. No, l did not.
Q. You were always outside the business?
A. Correct.
Q. You were always in the parking lot somewhere?
A. Correct
Q. Were you in a car by yourself?
A. Yes.
Q. And also at that time you were aware of that
Detective Stark was — I'm sorry — that Detective — I
have forgotten his name.
A. Jones.
Q. Detective Jones was in a car by himself?
A. Correct.
Q. Where was your car located that night?
A. My car was in the row closest to MacArthur
Boulevard approximately 25 yards away from the edge of
the Q.
Q. And that would be the building at the very
opposite end of that parking lot?
A. That is correct.
Q. And was that business open and operating
during the time that you were there?
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A. Yes, it was.
Q. And is there also a third business on that
parking lot?
A Correct.
Q. And that place was called Snagar at the time,
correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, Detective, I notice you are looking at
your report with regard to November 2nd so these things
that you are telling me, do you remember them from your
own independent recollection or are you just telling me
what is stated in your report?
A. A little bit of both. I just wanted to make
sure exactly where I was parked and many other things.
I'm sure some minor details I will refer to my report.
Q. May I take a look at your report?
A. Absolutely.
Q. Also on this report you have highlighted some
items. These are all in your highlighting, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And your report nowhere bears your signature?
A Not the signature, correct.
Q. And it does have a Post4t on it, and the
Post -it reflects your notes that you have written in?
A. Correct.
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A. Correct.
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observed that night?
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any obviously intoxicated persons or anything like that,
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true?
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the Fury, was that — was that about two or three weeks
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were you always outside the business?
A. You mean did I go inside the business?
Q. Did you go inside the business?
A. No, l did not.
Q. You were always outside the business?
A. Correct.
Q. You were always in the parking lot somewhere?
A. Correct
Q. Were you in a car by yourself?
A. Yes.
Q. And also at that time you were aware of that
Detective Stark was — I'm sorry — that Detective — I
have forgotten his name.
A. Jones.
Q. Detective Jones was in a car by himself?
A. Correct.
Q. Where was your car located that night?
A. My car was in the row closest to MacArthur
Boulevard approximately 25 yards away from the edge of
the Q.
Q. And that would be the building at the very
opposite end of that parking lot?
A. That is correct.
Q. And was that business open and operating
during the time that you were there?
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A. Yes, it was.
Q. And is there also a third business on that
parking lot?
A Correct.
Q. And that place was called Snagar at the time,
correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, Detective, I notice you are looking at
your report with regard to November 2nd so these things
that you are telling me, do you remember them from your
own independent recollection or are you just telling me
what is stated in your report?
A. A little bit of both. I just wanted to make
sure exactly where I was parked and many other things.
I'm sure some minor details I will refer to my report.
Q. May I take a look at your report?
A. Absolutely.
Q. Also on this report you have highlighted some
items. These are all in your highlighting, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And your report nowhere bears your signature?
A Not the signature, correct.
Q. And it does have a Post4t on it, and the
Post -it reflects your notes that you have written in?
A. Correct.
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A. Right, the smoking patio door which
remained opened (indicating).
Q. So as far as the smoking patio door, that door
faces MacArthur Boulevard, right?
A. Kind of kitty - corner. Kind of faces me, kind
of half to me in the parking lot and half to MacArthur,
if that makes sense.
Q. Well, the door coming from the inside of Fury
to the smoking patio, if one were to look at that door
and if the door was on a plane, is the plane of that
door paralegal to MacArthur?
A. To the best of my memory, the front door is
facing directly toward me In the parking lot. Directly
toward MacArthur would be this way. I believe the door
is kind of a 45- degree angle right in the middle.
Q. Now, let me direct your attention —you can
put that down. I'm done with that. Let me direct your
attention to what we have identified as Exhibit 19 and
the video that was referenced. You have already
testified you weren't present when it was made, and you
are not sure when it was made other than a reference
that was made in the video that the place had been open
three to four months. You don't Avow what date the
events depicted in the video actually took place,
correct?
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A. Correll.
Q. You don't know what time of the day those
events took place, correct?
A. It was the nighttime, though.
Q. And you believe it was nighttime because the
events depicted there were in the dark?
A. Correct.
Q. We don't know whether that is early in the
evening or late in the evening, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And you have mentioned your observations of
Mr. Schillizzi, and you referenced the ABC file. Are
you talking about files that you as a vice oncer were
responsible for in some way directly or indirectly when
the application was made to the Department of Alcohol
and Beverage Control for the ABC license initially
before this place opened up?
A. I'm kind of confused. The main application,
the main information for the ABC application, I think it
was forwarded to us when we created the files on the CDL
picture, created it
Q. And what I'm asking, then, is assuming it
opened up in June, I don't know when the ABC license was
actually issued, but it was sometime before that the
application was made and they put up a posting and all
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A. Right, the smoking patio door which
remained opened (indicating).
Q. So as far as the smoking patio door, that door
faces MacArthur Boulevard, right?
A. Kind of kitty - corner. Kind of faces me, kind
of half to me in the parking lot and half to MacArthur,
if that makes sense.
Q. Well, the door coming from the inside of Fury
to the smoking patio, if one were to look at that door
and if the door was on a plane, is the plane of that
door paralegal to MacArthur?
A. To the best of my memory, the front door is
facing directly toward me In the parking lot. Directly
toward MacArthur would be this way. I believe the door
is kind of a 45- degree angle right in the middle.
Q. Now, let me direct your attention —you can
put that down. I'm done with that. Let me direct your
attention to what we have identified as Exhibit 19 and
the video that was referenced. You have already
testified you weren't present when it was made, and you
are not sure when it was made other than a reference
that was made in the video that the place had been open
three to four months. You don't Avow what date the
events depicted in the video actually took place,
correct?
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A. Correll.
Q. You don't know what time of the day those
events took place, correct?
A. It was the nighttime, though.
Q. And you believe it was nighttime because the
events depicted there were in the dark?
A. Correct.
Q. We don't know whether that is early in the
evening or late in the evening, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. And you have mentioned your observations of
Mr. Schillizzi, and you referenced the ABC file. Are
you talking about files that you as a vice oncer were
responsible for in some way directly or indirectly when
the application was made to the Department of Alcohol
and Beverage Control for the ABC license initially
before this place opened up?
A. I'm kind of confused. The main application,
the main information for the ABC application, I think it
was forwarded to us when we created the files on the CDL
picture, created it
Q. And what I'm asking, then, is assuming it
opened up in June, I don't know when the ABC license was
actually issued, but it was sometime before that the
application was made and they put up a posting and all
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this location or interpret the ABC Act in any way that
is meaningful or relevant for purposes of this
proceeding and 352.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Are you seeking a legal
determination by him --
MS. AILIN: I'm not —
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- or are youjust asking
what his impression of the two places were? If he was
required to just respond to the question, which is it
without reference to legal defrrition?
MS. AILIN: In spite of the questions about
training, what I'm really looking for is sort of a lay
person's impression of whether something is a restaurant
or a bar.
THE HEARING OFFICER I think he can answer the
question requested.
MR. JAMIESON: I'm going to make an objection.
It's irrelevant to the extent of what a lay person would
think. We have got definitions of such a thing in the
ABC. We have got definitions in the Municipal Code.
Those are legal conclusions to be applied based on what
the facts are in this proceeding, and I think it's
irrelevant, 352, prejudicial or probative and lacks
foundation.
THE HEARING OFFICER: So he can answer the
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MR. JAMIESON: Thank you. But it's not my choice.
THE WITNESS: You said is it a bar or a restaurant
I would say it's a club.
BY MS. AIIJN:
Q. And in your mind what's the difference between
a restaurant, a bar and a club?
MR. JAMIESON: Same objections.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's enough. You have got
-- you have made a point.
Do you have questions?
MS. AILIN: No further questions.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I have a couple of questions,
but I want to preface it by asking you whether you have
other people that are going to testify regarding the
video?
MS. AILIN: I have one other person who is going
to testify regarding the video.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay. Detective Stark, what
-- how many times, approximately, have you been inside
of Fury?
THE WITNESS: Once.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What color is the upholstery
and what is the predominant color in there?
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this location or interpret the ABC Act in any way that
is meaningful or relevant for purposes of this
proceeding and 352.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Are you seeking a legal
determination by him --
MS. AILIN: I'm not —
THE HEARING OFFICER: -- or are youjust asking
what his impression of the two places were? If he was
required to just respond to the question, which is it
without reference to legal defrrition?
MS. AILIN: In spite of the questions about
training, what I'm really looking for is sort of a lay
person's impression of whether something is a restaurant
or a bar.
THE HEARING OFFICER I think he can answer the
question requested.
MR. JAMIESON: I'm going to make an objection.
It's irrelevant to the extent of what a lay person would
think. We have got definitions of such a thing in the
ABC. We have got definitions in the Municipal Code.
Those are legal conclusions to be applied based on what
the facts are in this proceeding, and I think it's
irrelevant, 352, prejudicial or probative and lacks
foundation.
THE HEARING OFFICER: So he can answer the
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MR. JAMIESON: Thank you. But it's not my choice.
THE WITNESS: You said is it a bar or a restaurant
I would say it's a club.
BY MS. AIIJN:
Q. And in your mind what's the difference between
a restaurant, a bar and a club?
MR. JAMIESON: Same objections.
THE HEARING OFFICER: That's enough. You have got
-- you have made a point.
Do you have questions?
MS. AILIN: No further questions.
THE HEARING OFFICER: I have a couple of questions,
but I want to preface it by asking you whether you have
other people that are going to testify regarding the
video?
MS. AILIN: I have one other person who is going
to testify regarding the video.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Okay. Detective Stark, what
-- how many times, approximately, have you been inside
of Fury?
THE WITNESS: Once.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What color is the upholstery
and what is the predominant color in there?
THE WITNESS: God, its kind of like a reddish
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Q. And within Exhibit 31 on the seventh and
eighth pages — and I guess the eighth and ninth pages,
they are the last three in that exhibit.
A. Okay.
Q. Do you see those?
A. Yes.
Q. And have you seen those pages before?
A. Yes.
Q. Is this a report that you prepared?
A. Yes.
Q. Was this report prepared in the course and
scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes.
Q. What is the date of the events that are
described in this report?
A. January 31st, 2008.
Q. And when was the report prepared?
A. On February 1st, 2008.
Q. Did you make any notes of the events that
occurred on January 1st other than this report?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you prepare this report from those notes?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you still have those notes?
A. No.
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Q. And is this report based on your observation
of the events that occurred on January 31, 2808?
A. Yes.
MS. AI,[N: Move these pages of Exhibit 31 into
evidence.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; same bases.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
MR. JAMIESON: Same basis.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Same bases for the objection?
MR. JAMIESON: Same bases for the objection for the
other documents.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Hayward, there is a video recording
that we are essentially going to be using as an exhibit
in this hearing. We have marked it for identification
as Exhibit 19. It's a video that Kristi Parker obtained
off the YouTube website. Have you seen that video?
A. I have.
Q. When did you see It?
A. Most recently, I viewed it this morning.
Q. And have you been inside Fury?
A. 1 have.
Q. And you have also seen the outside of Fury?
A. Yes.
Q. Based on your observations of the inside and
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Q. And within Exhibit 31 on the seventh and
eighth pages — and I guess the eighth and ninth pages,
they are the last three in that exhibit.
A. Okay.
Q. Do you see those?
A. Yes.
Q. And have you seen those pages before?
A. Yes.
Q. Is this a report that you prepared?
A. Yes.
Q. Was this report prepared in the course and
scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes.
Q. What is the date of the events that are
described in this report?
A. January 31st, 2008.
Q. And when was the report prepared?
A. On February 1st, 2008.
Q. Did you make any notes of the events that
occurred on January 1st other than this report?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you prepare this report from those notes?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you still have those notes?
A. No.
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Q. And is this report based on your observation
of the events that occurred on January 31, 2808?
A. Yes.
MS. AI,[N: Move these pages of Exhibit 31 into
evidence.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; same bases.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
MR. JAMIESON: Same basis.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Same bases for the objection?
MR. JAMIESON: Same bases for the objection for the
other documents.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Hayward, there is a video recording
that we are essentially going to be using as an exhibit
in this hearing. We have marked it for identification
as Exhibit 19. It's a video that Kristi Parker obtained
off the YouTube website. Have you seen that video?
A. I have.
Q. When did you see It?
A. Most recently, I viewed it this morning.
Q. And have you been inside Fury?
A. 1 have.
Q. And you have also seen the outside of Fury?
A. Yes.
Q. Based on your observations of the inside and
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Q. And within Exhibit 31 on the seventh and
eighth pages — and I guess the eighth and ninth pages,
they are the last three in that exhibit.
A. Okay.
Q. Do you see those?
A. Yes.
Q. And have you seen those pages before?
A. Yes.
Q. Is this a report that you prepared?
A. Yes.
Q. Was this report prepared in the course and
scope of your duties as a police officer?
A. Yes.
Q. What is the date of the events that are
described in this report?
A. January 31st, 2008.
Q. And when was the report prepared?
A. On February 1st, 2008.
Q. Did you make any notes of the events that
occurred on January 1st other than this report?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you prepare this report from those notes?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you still have those notes?
A. No.
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Q. And is this report based on your observation
of the events that occurred on January 31, 2808?
A. Yes.
MS. AI,[N: Move these pages of Exhibit 31 into
evidence.
MR. JAMIESON: Objection; same bases.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
MR. JAMIESON: Same basis.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Same bases for the objection?
MR. JAMIESON: Same bases for the objection for the
other documents.
BY MS. AILIN:
Q. Detective Hayward, there is a video recording
that we are essentially going to be using as an exhibit
in this hearing. We have marked it for identification
as Exhibit 19. It's a video that Kristi Parker obtained
off the YouTube website. Have you seen that video?
A. I have.
Q. When did you see It?
A. Most recently, I viewed it this morning.
Q. And have you been inside Fury?
A. 1 have.
Q. And you have also seen the outside of Fury?
A. Yes.
Q. Based on your observations of the inside and
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that was not January 31, 2008, did you say that was
after January 31?
A. Yes.
Q. And who were you with at that time?
A. I was with Detective Joe, Detective
Damn Joe.
Q. The same detective you were with on the night
of January 31?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you bring in your copy of the report that
you did for January 31?
A. Actually, Detective Joe prepared the report,
but I do have a copy of it.
Q. The report that I'm looking at shows the
reporting officer at the bottom as Hayward, but you did
not prepare this report?
A. No, I prepared this one, but the next time
that we went together Detective Joe prepared the report.
Q. Oh, I see. Okay. And is it correct that
Exhibit 31, which is your report, does not reflect your
signature anywhere?
A. Yes.
Q. On January 21st, 2008 at 2130 hours when you
and Detective Joe arrived at Fury, did you arrive there
as a result of a call for service by a member of the
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A. No.
Q. — that was not in Newport Beach?
A. No.
Q. And you had phoned in your dinner reservation j
for 2100 hours?
A. Yes.
Q. And whoever answered the phone when you called
into Fury accepted your dinner reservation for 2100
hours?
A. Yes.
Q. When you arrived there, did you actually get'
seated someplace and order dinner?
A. Yes. '..
Q. And did you utilize the menu that was handed
to you at the time?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you characterize the menu as being a
fairly extensive menu?
MS. All-IN: Objection; vague and ambiguous.
THE ]-TEARING OFFICER: Overruled.
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Q. Did it have a lot of food items on it?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you ever walk through the place and we
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A. I did not.
Q. Prior to going thereon January 31st, did you
look at the live entertainment permit for Fury?
A. No.
Q. Prior to going thereon January 31st, did you
look at the cafe dance permit?
A. Na
Q. Are you aware that those permits existed for
the Fury operation?
A. Yes.
Q. And when you drafted your report of your
observations and you reflected that at 2300 hours there
was indeed five entertainment, did you write that down
because you considered that to be an issue in your
investigation and observation of this location?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it your understanding that the occupancy
load for that location was approximately 297?
A. Yes.
Q. So when you Identified in your report that at
eleven o'clock there were about 250 patrons, that is
certainly not exceeding the capacity, correct?
A. Correct
Q. When you identified that observation in your
report, you felt that was a good thing, did you not?
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A. It was just an observation.
Q. But you write down observations that you feel
are important for the purpose for which you are there,
right?
A. I put — I mean, all of my observations
whether I felt were good or bad or irrelevant.
Q. Well, the point is you were there up until —
well, what time did you leave there?
A. I believe after miduigh4 a little after
midnight.
Q. So during the time that you were there, for
that couple of hours I guess, maybe three hours, you
wrote down those things that you felt were relevant for
the purpose for which you were there?
A. Sure.
Q. And based on your training and education as a
police officer what you thought was important and
relevant, true?
A. True.
Q. Now, at midnight you were provided a menu
which had around ten food items, but it was two pages
shorter than the dinner menu you were given at 11:30 —
strike that — at 9:30; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. But the items on this shorter menu that you
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A. I did not.
Q. Prior to going thereon January 31st, did you
look at the live entertainment permit for Fury?
A. No.
Q. Prior to going thereon January 31st, did you
look at the cafe dance permit?
A. Na
Q. Are you aware that those permits existed for
the Fury operation?
A. Yes.
Q. And when you drafted your report of your
observations and you reflected that at 2300 hours there
was indeed five entertainment, did you write that down
because you considered that to be an issue in your
investigation and observation of this location?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it your understanding that the occupancy
load for that location was approximately 297?
A. Yes.
Q. So when you Identified in your report that at
eleven o'clock there were about 250 patrons, that is
certainly not exceeding the capacity, correct?
A. Correct
Q. When you identified that observation in your
report, you felt that was a good thing, did you not?
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A. It was just an observation.
Q. But you write down observations that you feel
are important for the purpose for which you are there,
right?
A. I put — I mean, all of my observations
whether I felt were good or bad or irrelevant.
Q. Well, the point is you were there up until —
well, what time did you leave there?
A. I believe after miduigh4 a little after
midnight.
Q. So during the time that you were there, for
that couple of hours I guess, maybe three hours, you
wrote down those things that you felt were relevant for
the purpose for which you were there?
A. Sure.
Q. And based on your training and education as a
police officer what you thought was important and
relevant, true?
A. True.
Q. Now, at midnight you were provided a menu
which had around ten food items, but it was two pages
shorter than the dinner menu you were given at 11:30 —
strike that — at 9:30; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. But the items on this shorter menu that you
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minute or so an accurate depiction of the Fury premises
on the night that you were there?
A. Yes.
Q. The barstools that you talk about being
removed, are those stools around that bar right in the
middle of the place?
A. Yes.
Q. But not all those barstools were removed, were
they?
A. Not all of them.
Q. And when you say you went to the kitchen door
to observe the kitchen and I asked you about how large
the kitchen was in relation to the entire premises,
which door on here did you walk to and look at for the
kitchen area? If you can point that out for us, that
would be good.
A. I guess it would be — we sat here
(indicating), so this — I guess it would be this, if
there is a door here.
Q. Are you referring to a place where it says
"pickup line" and "no work "?
A. Yes.
Q. And from there you look toward the back and
you knew the kitchen was back there, right?
A. Yeah.
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Q. From that location — if I can just lean over,
if you don't mind, so the hearing officer can see.
Thank you, but you need to be able to see it, too. From
that location here where you were standing —
A. Uh -huh.
Q. — you had been sitting someplace over in this
area, right (indicating)?
A. Right.
Q. Where is — this is on the west side of the
building; is that true?
A. We call this the south side, but —
Q. Just so that we are situated, is the part up
here in that — here is the smoking patio over here,
right?
A. Yes.
Q. The part up here next to the smoking patio
that is kind of paralegal to the lengthwise of the
building, that's MacArthur?
A. Correct.
Q. And then the part down here that I'm pointing
at right now on the other side of the building is
actually the parking lot?
A. Yes.
Q. And there is also a parking lot to the left of
what we are looking at, which is the left of the parking
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got at midnight included seared bluefin salad, scallops,
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minute or so an accurate depiction of the Fury premises
on the night that you were there?
A. Yes.
Q. The barstools that you talk about being
removed, are those stools around that bar right in the
middle of the place?
A. Yes.
Q. But not all those barstools were removed, were
they?
A. Not all of them.
Q. And when you say you went to the kitchen door
to observe the kitchen and I asked you about how large
the kitchen was in relation to the entire premises,
which door on here did you walk to and look at for the
kitchen area? If you can point that out for us, that
would be good.
A. I guess it would be — we sat here
(indicating), so this — I guess it would be this, if
there is a door here.
Q. Are you referring to a place where it says
"pickup line" and "no work "?
A. Yes.
Q. And from there you look toward the back and
you knew the kitchen was back there, right?
A. Yeah.
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Q. From that location — if I can just lean over,
if you don't mind, so the hearing officer can see.
Thank you, but you need to be able to see it, too. From
that location here where you were standing —
A. Uh -huh.
Q. — you had been sitting someplace over in this
area, right (indicating)?
A. Right.
Q. Where is — this is on the west side of the
building; is that true?
A. We call this the south side, but —
Q. Just so that we are situated, is the part up
here in that — here is the smoking patio over here,
right?
A. Yes.
Q. The part up here next to the smoking patio
that is kind of paralegal to the lengthwise of the
building, that's MacArthur?
A. Correct.
Q. And then the part down here that I'm pointing
at right now on the other side of the building is
actually the parking lot?
A. Yes.
Q. And there is also a parking lot to the left of
what we are looking at, which is the left of the parking
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kitchen, you got up from the table here. You walked
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kitchen area you could look over and see the dance
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floor; is that right?
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this morning, you don't know what time of the day that
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video was taken, do you?
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Q. Detective Hayward, you said that not all of
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the barstools were removed from around the bar. About
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were intoxicated that are going to be a danger to
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how many were left?
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themselves or dangerous to other people, you would have
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hurting themselves or someone else, true?
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left. I believe this 94 through 98 was left on that
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they all occupied? Was anybody sitting in them?
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gotten behind the wheel of a car, that would have been a
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different story.
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women, you don't know how intoxicated either one of them
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got the ones down to your left, which I have got five,
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that means that these here around the bar were removed?
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there is — the D.J. has his own small box area over
here.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Does the video show that?
THE WITNESS: It showed — yeah, there is a view
that showed where the DJ. was at, and then —1 mean,
also that they had the — these bottle service, private
tables in this area next to the dance floor. Its kind
of a unique setup. Its easy to distinguish it from the
video.
THE HEARING OFFICER: You indicated that you
recognized someone.
THE WITNESS: Yes.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What was his name?
THE WITNESS: His last name is Schillizzi.
THE HEARING OFFICER How did you — you recognized
him in the video?
THE WITNESS: I did.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Where had you met him before?
THE WITNESS: Actually I know him — well, I saw
him on both occasions that 1 went to the location, and
he was — my partner - I went through three times, but I
only got in there twice. The first time we went was
before this report, and wejust basically stood in the
line — in line the whole time and never actually got
in. My partner that I was with then, Detective Graham,
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there.
THE HEARING OFFICER: And then you saw him when you
returned?
THE WITNESS: I saw him when I returned. On both
occasions he was there.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you. I dart have any
other questions.
MR JAMIESON: I don't.
MS. AILIN: No.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thanks a lot.
MS. AILIN: Thank you.
THE WITNESS: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: You guys need to get moving
here.
MS. AILIN: let's go off the record for a moment.
(Discussion was held off the record.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: Back on the record for the
purpose of continuing this hearing, slash, public
meeting until Friday at 11:00 a.m. — no, 10:30 a.m.
MS. AILIN: On Friday?
THE HEARING OFFICER: 10:30 a.m. on Friday on
Friday April t Stn, and that concludes today's — yeah,
that concludes this for today.
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THE HEARING OFFICER: Does the video show that?
THE WITNESS: It showed — yeah, there is a view
that showed where the DJ. was at, and then —1 mean,
also that they had the — these bottle service, private
tables in this area next to the dance floor. Its kind
of a unique setup. Its easy to distinguish it from the
video.
THE HEARING OFFICER: You indicated that you
recognized someone.
THE WITNESS: Yes.
THE HEARING OFFICER: What was his name?
THE WITNESS: His last name is Schillizzi.
THE HEARING OFFICER How did you — you recognized
him in the video?
THE WITNESS: I did.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Where had you met him before?
THE WITNESS: Actually I know him — well, I saw
him on both occasions that 1 went to the location, and
he was — my partner - I went through three times, but I
only got in there twice. The first time we went was
before this report, and wejust basically stood in the
line — in line the whole time and never actually got
in. My partner that I was with then, Detective Graham,
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there.
THE HEARING OFFICER: And then you saw him when you
returned?
THE WITNESS: I saw him when I returned. On both
occasions he was there.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you. I dart have any
other questions.
MR JAMIESON: I don't.
MS. AILIN: No.
THE HEARING OFFICER: Thanks a lot.
MS. AILIN: Thank you.
THE WITNESS: Sure.
THE HEARING OFFICER: You guys need to get moving
here.
MS. AILIN: let's go off the record for a moment.
(Discussion was held off the record.)
THE HEARING OFFICER: Back on the record for the
purpose of continuing this hearing, slash, public
meeting until Friday at 11:00 a.m. — no, 10:30 a.m.
MS. AILIN: On Friday?
THE HEARING OFFICER: 10:30 a.m. on Friday on
Friday April t Stn, and that concludes today's — yeah,
that concludes this for today.
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