COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
PLYMOUTH, SS NO: 81865

 

COMMONWEALTH

V.

DARRELL JONES



 

AFFIDAVIT OF LISA MARIE FINA

 

Lisa Marie Pina, being first duly sworn, states as follows:

I. My name is Lisa Marie Pina and I live in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

2. I was questioned by the Brockton Police in 1985, about
the shooting death of Guillermo Rodriguez, who was known by the
nick name I was then called to testify as a witness in a
criminal case concerning the death of Mr. Rodriguez.

3. On the night of the shooting I was in a car with Walter
Watson {who was known by the name ?BoBo?) and others, including
Terri Starks and Edna Levine, and an older man named Al Marrow.
The car was parked in the D'Angelds parking lot on Montello
Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. We had been in Pete and
Mary?s bar earlier and we had been drinking.

4. I was in the back seat of BoBo's car when there was
some commotion and as the car was backing up I looked over my
shoulder and saw someone lying on the ground. I did not see the
person get shot and I did not personally see anyone running away.

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Guillermo Rodriguez. I did not know Guillermo Rodriguez
personally, but I knew who he was.

5. At that time I did not know Darrell Jones, but I
learned that he is known by the nick name ?Diamond.? Based on
conversations that I heard his name was mentioned in connection
with the incident in the D?Angeloe parking lot, but I didn?t
know the name ?Diamond? at all and I did not know Darrell Jones.

6. After I saw the body in the parking lot, people in the
car started talking and someone decided that we should get out of
the parking lot and make sure that someone called for help. BoBo
Watson drove the car out of the parking lot to the back door of
Pete and Mary% bar by Franklin Street and I went inside. I did
not make the call, but I think that I called to the bartender to
make the call for an ambulance. We later left the area in BoBo?s
car and went back to BoEo?s.

7. The Brockton police came to my house at least two times
to question me about what happened in the'UAngeloe parking lot.
I remember that the last time they came one of the police
detectives was Detective Smith. I knew him and recognized him
because at the time I worked for McDonald?s and Detective Smith
would be there working on details while I was there. Detective
Smith showed me pictures and asked if I could identify the person
who was in the parking lot, and I told him that I could not

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have a chance to see the people who were involved. Any knowledge
I had was based on what other people were saying not on what I
saw.

8. I kept telling Detective Smith that I didn't know who
did this, and he kept telling me that I ?did? know. Detective
Smith kept saying something like ?pick a picture Lisa . . . pick
a picture . . . you know who did it, you know who did At
the time of these events I was young and I felt a lot of pressure
to do what the police wanted me to do. Eventually as the police
insisted that I pick a picture, I randomly made an indication
toward one of the pictures, and the police seemed to be satisfied
with that. Detective Smith told me that I picked out the right
one and I said that if I did it was purely by luck. I still
remember how stressful it was to have the police telling me to
pick a picture after I told them that I didn?t see the person
well enough to pick.

9. I never told either Detective Smith or Detective Washak
that any particular person did the shooting and if they said that
I did, then they would not be accurate in describing the
conversation with me. I did not see much that night, but I felt
like the police had their own idea of what happened and they
wanted me to come to the same conclusion that they did.

10. The Brockton Police came to my house and spoke to me

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by the prosecution. I was not contacted by the lawyer for

Diamond, or by any private investigator for Diamond before he
went on trial for the murder of POW. If I was contacted by a
lawyer or investigator for Diamond I would have answered any

questions truthfully, as I would do today.

Signed under the penalties of perjury of

September, 2014.

Lis Marie Pina

Lag/77?

 

 

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