Irvin’s Attorney Implies Conspiracy

Irving, Texas, police officers met with prosecutors five times to discuss what happened the night Michael Irvin was found in a motel room with cocaine and marijuana, testimony in the Dallas Cowboys receiver’s drug trial showed Wednesday.

During cross-examination of the trial’s first witness, defense attorney Kevin Clancy asked officer Matthew Drumm about the meetings and suggested “y’all got your stories straight.”

“That almost sounds like we made something up. No,” said Drumm, the lead officer called to the Residence Inn in March on what he termed a routine disturbance call that possibly involved prostitution.

Later, responding to a question on the same issue, Drumm said the officers’ stories weren’t “different from each of us to start with.”

Clancy then quizzed Drumm about the location of Irvin and the three other people when police went inside the room after detecting what Drumm called “the immediate heavy odor of burning marijuana.”

Clancy tried attacking the officer’s credibility by questioning him about previous testimony he’d given relating to Irvin’s position in the room and what he said Wednesday.

Pointing to two diagrams charting where Irvin was that night, Clancy suggested that Drumm changed his mind about where the football star was after meeting with prosecutors.