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February 9, 2010 in City
Defense questions accuser
Closing arguments are expected today
Attorneys defending Morning Star Boys’ Ranch rested their case on Monday after bringing the ranch’s accuser, Kenneth Putnam, to the stand in the civil trial’s last day of testimony.
Closing arguments are expected today in the first of 19 separate lawsuits filed in Spokane County Superior Court against the Spokane residential facility for troubled boys.
Putnam, 34, voiced indignation as Morning Star attorney Jim King asked him to read from numerous pages of transcripts of pre-trial interviews.
“You get me confused with all your questions, just like the depositions,” Putnam, who has attention deficit disorder, told King.
When King managed …
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