Editing Blog/2025-05-17/Witness For The Prosecution (section)

== The Original Witness Subpoena ==

One thing that I thought was entertaining was the subpoena. The whole thing started roughly 2 years ago when Julie and I witnessed the incident, a year after which I was contacted by an SFPD investigator, and 6 months after which I was asked to be a witness. After many delays in the process, I was finally formally asked to be a witness. I figured this was a matter of just answering the email (which included the subpoena), but amusingly they actually also serve you a subpoena at home to tell you that you are required to present yourself at court as a witness. Now, I didn't know this thing was coming so it was very funny to receive a call at work with the front-desk concierge at home calling to tell me that there was a lawyer there to serve me papers! Fortunately, Julie was able to go get them and that started the process.

Overall the timeline was:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Caption text
|-
! Date !! Event
|-
| 2023-07 || We witnessed the event, and called 911
|-
| 2024-07 || I was contacted by SFPD
|-
| 2024-11 || I was asked to be a witness
|-
| 2025-05 || I actually testified in court
|}

I can still recall the entire thing that happened and I was particularly pleased that when the 911 call was played in the courtroom my testimony lined up exactly with it. Turns out my memory is still pretty good! It's probably because there was no phone service in the courtroom so I didn't use my phone.