Pedro Garcia Memo Takes Center Stage In Rezoning Lawsuit

By Kleinheider Posted on November 4, 2009 at 9:11 am

Jeff Woods gives you the news and the commentary:

Civil rights attorney Larry Woods, schooling his less experienced rival–Metro lawyer Kevin Klein–managed to worm the memo into evidence through the back door yesterday on the trial’s first day. During testimony by just-retired board member George Thompson, Woods suddenly used an overhead projector to flash the memo onto a courtroom wall.

Despite Klein’s repeated objections that the document contains outrageous hearsay–”layers of hearsay,” in fact–federal Judge John Nixon said Woods could ask Thompson about it as long as Thompson was testifying about his own state of mind when he voted against the rezoning plan. The judge said he’d rule later about the admissibility of the document itself.

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