← All LocationsOpeningOpening Statement - Defense James Sylivan Owens
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sheriff's office
In his opening statement, James Owens said Sarah Boone was asked to come to the sheriff's office to retrieve her phone. He asserted that the visit instead became an interrogation in which investigators intended to confront her with the two videos and arrest her.
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The defense presented the office visit as the setting of an interrogation confronting Boone with the two phone videos, making it part of its account of how investigators obtained and challenged her statements.