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...remained for the afternoon session. Emeka Ezera stood in the jury box to hear the charge. All of the people who were to testify on behalf of the defense and prosecution stood as the bailiff presented the oath. The judge ordered all witnesses sequestered, with the exception of Joan McGaw, the victim and plaintiff...
Wearing a purple two-piece skirt and top, McGaw nervously stood before the judge in the plaintiff's box. Speaking so softly the judge twice requested that she raise her voice, McGaw told the court of her job with the Boston Water Commission's customer service department. She said she attended night school every Tuesday after work. On March 11, she took her normal route to her Boylston station stop. At approximately 9:40 p.m. someone took her wallet at Park St., prompting her to get off the train at Boylston and return to Park St. to notify police...
...hooked into my clothes. I was carrying my bag under my arm," she said. Describing her actions as "being polite," she said she tried to help the man get it out of her clothes. After she had helped him, "He stepped off Park St. and the door shut." McGaw said she only saw him for "about 30 seconds." Her purse was gone...
...same person, also waiting for a train. She said she went to the information booth and told the MBTA officer she thought it was the same person. "He took me down and said, 'Is this the same person?" He asked me twice, and I told him I was certain." McGaw said she saw him again in a little office at the subway stop and identified him again. "I saw him again in the hallway the day of the arraignment...
Glancing nervously about the room, McGaw wiped her forehead, pushing her bangs to the side. "I saw him earlier today," she answered. A hush swept over the courtroom as the judge asked her to look again. Prosecutor Burns informed the judge that the courtroom held an "excess of 70 people, 60 per cent Black and 40 per cent white...