Fogleman: You're Bryn Ridge of the West Memphis police department?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Fogleman: Uh - Detective Ridge, I want to direct your attention to May the 10th, 1993. Um - on that date did you have some contact and some conversation with the defendant, Damien Echols?
Ridge: Yes sir, I did.
Fogleman: And uh - approximately what time did you have contact with him?
Ridge: (sigh)
Fogleman: Do you have the subject description form wth you?
Ridge: No sir, I don't.
(pause)
Ridge: Approximately 11:54am.
Fogleman: And is that the first thing you do is fill out the subject descriptiong form?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Fogleman: Alright, and who else was present when you talked to him?
Ridge: Lt. Sudbury.
Fogleman: During the time that you talked to him, uh, was there any force, promises, threats, or coersion used to get him to talk to you?
Ridge: No sir.
Fogleman: And in the, uh - were you and Detective Sudbury, uh - kind of an interview team?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Fogleman: Alright. And what is your information as to how uh - Damien got to be at the police department?
Ridge: My understanding is that his mother brought him up there.
Fogleman: During the course of your interview with the defendant, uh - any force, promises, threats or coersion ever used?
Ridge: No sir.
Fogleman: I don't have any further questions.
The Court: Anything else?
Price: Uh - yes sir, I've got - (clears throat). Detective Ridge, did - did you and Lt. Sudbury talk with Mr. Echols up until the time he was turned over to Officer Durham?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Price: Now the - was there a - a standard form of, I believe, a 32 questions - a questionare that had been filled out or that ya'll had compiled earlier that you were asking many subjects, many suspects in this case?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Price: And was one of the things that you and Lt. Sudbury questioned Mr. Echols about, you went over these 32 questions and wrote down his responses?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Price: Ok. Um - in addition, did you - were there some - some notes that you were writing, I think in probably long hand and maybe on legal length paper?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Price: Ok. If I could approach the witness, your Honor?
The Court: Yes.
Price: These the same ones that - they are 4 pages long?
Ridge: That's correct, yes sir.
Price: Alright, and then after you - these were the notes I guess you were taking as you questioned him?
Ridge: Yes sir.
Price: Alright. And that the conclusion of this or at some point later in the future, did you go back and write your answers on an Investigative Report form? I believe this was a form with lines and uh - essentially this form here, the report form, this was not a second interview, it was - you basically took the information from here - from your long hand and kind of -
Ridge: These notes were to refresh my memory in order to write this report as a rough draft of the interview. Then there was another draft of that interview.
Price: Alright, and was that a typed version?
Ridge: That is correct, yes sir.
Price: Alright, if I could approach the witness just to - is this the typed version?
Ridge: Yes sir, it is.
Price: Alright. And Officer Ridge, the - as far as the hand written investigation report, was this 3 pages long?
Ridge: Yes sir, 3 pages.
Price: Alright. Um. If I could approach the witness, your Honor, just look -
The Court: Are there any admissions or statements in hence that, uh - you saying -
Fogleman: We haven't considered yet, your Honor.
The Court: Alright, go ahead.
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The Court: Alright, let me make sure I understand, your interview with Damien Echls occurred prior to him going to Officer Durham?
Ridge: That's correct, yes sir.
The Court: And you had concluded all of your questioning prior to that time?
Ridge: Yes sir.
The Court: Alright.
Price: Officer Ridge, was the interview that you did with Mr. Echols, did ya'll tape record any of that interview?
Ridge: No sir.
Price: Ok. Did ya'll have - did you have Mr. Echols, uh - review your notes and sign at the bottom of 'em?
Ridge: No sir.
Price: - At the conclusion of the interview.
Ridge: No sir.
Price: Alright Judge, I have no other questions of this witness at this time. Um - there's one thing I need to talk to the prosecutors about, just briefly.
The Court: Ok, are there any other witnesses?
Fogleman: Your Honor -
The Court: - In this hearing.
Fogleman: - There's - as far as the state has given to Detective Ridge and Sudbury - Officer Sudbury, has not made it here yet and we'd not even planned on putting Detective Ridge on with that statement this morning, but later we would like to suppliment -
The Court: Alright.
Fogleman: - A denno hearing wth his testimony at a later time.
Price: That would be fine, Judge.
(mumbling)
The Court: Anything else?
Price: No sir. The page uh - (mumble) - we were missing the middle page of his notes, Judge, and that's what I was asking them.
(mumbling)
Price: We have no further question, if I could see the written -
Fogleman: Your Honor, the -
Price: - If you could make a copy of the middle -
Fogleman: - Mr. Echols was talked to by, I believe it may have been Detective Gitchell and another person, after um - Detective Durham had talked to him, but we're not planning on offering anything he said after Detective Durham talked to him.
The Court: Alright. Anything else? Alright, you may stand down for right now. Did you have anything you want - any other witnesses?
