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Are you telling this story that your fiance called you, told you that

to come making love because his brother has been shot and you don't remember anything.

You don't have any recollection. I do that. Okay.

That is prosecutor Tanas Mikhailov, sparring with a witness in the murder trial of Pierre Romain.

Mikhailov is clearly frustrated with the witnesses seeming lack of memory when it comes to what

would seemingly be a memorable night in anybody's life. And with good reason, the woman testifying

was Mikhail's own witness called by the prosecution to help make the case against Romain.

And now she's up on the stand in front of the jury and claiming not to remember a thing.

Romain is charged with first degree murder in the killing of Jay Clark during an attempted

carjacking in Hollywood in 1987. An attempted carjacking in which the prosecution is saying he got

shot himself. It is now the summer of 2017 and Romain has finally been brought to trial.

We are halfway through the presentation of the prosecution's case at this point.

And for all the smooth sailing that characterized the first week of the trial,

things started getting bumpy in the second. Remember what we said earlier, taking a 30-year-old

case to trial is no easy task. People die, people disappear, memories fade, some naturally,

and some you could say intentionally. In the second week, the prosecution's case moves into a rough

patch. Mikhail had to work hard to get the information she needed to the jury, repeatedly having

to ask Judge Larry P. Fiddler if she could read prior testimony of witnesses or play old interviews

recorded during the earlier stages of the investigation. Needless to say, it frustrated the prosecutor,

it frustrated the judge, and it must have frustrated the jury.

First of all, the witness is being discussed. She's spending memory loss. It's not a truthful one.

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