Trial Day 4

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Please be seated. Good morning, we are here on case number 26CR88, state of Ohio versus Caleb C. Flynn. Sir, is that you? Yes, sir. All right, this matter comes on for its fifth day of trial. We are still in the midst of the state's case in chief. Mr. Watkins, are we ready to proceed? Yes, sir. Anything, any pretrial matters that the court needs to address? Ms. Mulligan? No, Your Honor. Thank you. Ms. Osendorf, if you'd like to bring in the jury. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please have a seat. Welcome back. I'll let you get acclimated. The court will ask that you turn off your phones completely, both for the jurors as well as those that are in the gallery. Thank you. At this point, Mr. Joseph, from the state, would you like to call your next witness?

Thank you, Your Honor. State Calls Detective Brad Klein.

Detective Klein, if you'd like to come up to the witness stand. If you would raise your right hand, Ms. Ostendorf will swear you in.

Mr. Joseph, you may inquire with this witness. Thank you.

And what's the DEA? Correct Enforcement Administration. How long have you been employed with the Tipsy Police Department? For eight years. Any prior law enforcement experience to that? Yes, I was with the Miami County Sheriff's Department for 18 years prior to that as a deputy and a detective. And how many years old have you been a police officer? 28. And where did you receive your training? At St. Clair Police Academy. And any other specialized training you've received as a police officer in the course of your career? I've been through numerous trainings. I'm a certified evidence technician. I've been sent to schooling for criminal investigations, interviews. And what did you observe at the scene when you first arrived? When I first arrived, I saw several police cruisers, crime scene tape up around the property of the residence. Both of the officers on the scene, Sergeant Allen, and there was a deceased female in the bedroom. And what did you do next? And where did you go next? From there, when I exited the bedroom, I observed the store to the outside was open with a refrigerator behind it. the concrete bird frame of the door, but it was on the inside. And based on your observations, what you observed, what the bird was, it was all on the inside of the door frame, inside of the garage. Detectives started an order. From there, I spoke with the next-door neighbor, the Bannons. They're at the end of the cul-de-sac, so if you're facing the Flint residence, they'd be the house to the left. They had some media enforcement showing up. And what did you do after that? From there, we checked with the other neighbors, myself. if they had any camera footage. We checked Cunningham Court on the east side, checked on Manchester, and then we came on the back side of Cunningham Court, which was St. Leonard. And anybody that we spoke to that morning, which was around 4 or 3-ish, nobody had seen anything or heard anything, and nobody had any camera footage besides the bailiffs. Once Special Agent Hammonds was finished marking all of his evidence, he came out and notified us of that. We then went and