[Vision2020] Duncan's Sentencing Trial

[Tom Hansen]

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The next witness is Linda Barger, manager of the Coeur d'Alene Denny's 
where Shasta was found with Duncan. 

She's identifying the restaurant building through a picture and showing 
where the entrances are, etc.

Barger was working the 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. shift the night Shasta was found.

She identified Duncan in court as the man she saw in the restaurant. She 
said she knows his name because of the media.

"I looked around, at that time we try to figure out what's going to happen 
before the bar rush hits because it can be a pretty rough crowd." 

Barger said she looks around at that time of night to make sure kids are 
seated away from where the drunks will be.

She looked at Shasta and thought she recognized her from the flyers.

She told her waitress, Amber, to make them dessert to hold them there 
longer. The cooks were covering the back just in case Duncan fled.

"I told the girls I was going to take a chance," Barger said. She called 
911 and said she was 99.9 percent sure it was Shasta.

When she was on the phone a waitress put a photo of Shasta in front of 
her. "I said, 'it's her,'" Barger said. "I was excited."

Police arrived about five minutes later.

Duncan and Shasta got up and entered separate bathrooms. 

Barger watched Duncan leave the bathroom and wait for Shasta. She could 
tell he saw the police.

Duncan took the girl back to the table, and the officers entered the 
restaurant. 

An officer placed his arm on Duncan's shoulder and asking the girl her 
name, Barger said.

"That's what caught our attention," Barger said, was how "she looked like 
a child that had been playing in dirt all day."

[Cross-examination by Duncan]

"There's no tricks to my questions just so you know. Don't worry." Duncan 
asked Barger.

He asked if it was normal for Barger to stand with other waitresses and 
watch Duncan or other customers. She said yes, before bar rush.

He asked her to verify that the milkshake came in a metal container. 

Barger said it did. 
 
"I'm just clarifying this stuff for my own sake, for the record," Duncan 
said.

Duncan asked if it was possible the officer removed him before they asked 
Shasta's name.

Barger said she thinks Duncan was standing when that happened, but she was 
sure he was there.

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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