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(FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Feb. 6) Court proceedings lasted less than an hour today as the prosecution rested its case by calling its last witness, Jeffrey Alcorn, a litigation assistant at Annapolis. Alcorn was the assistant to Lieutenant Pat McCarthy, the Naval litigator who was approached by the Naval chaplain with Zamora's alleged confession to her roommates about Adrianne Jones's murder. This witness was asked about their procedures in questioning and investigating Zamora. Alcorn told the court that McCarthy never misrepresented himself to Zamora as her lawyer.

Alcorn testified that he seized Zamora's date book from her room after he was told to search it. Prosecutor Michael Parrish then asked Alcorn to read aloud some of the entries in the date book. Some of the dates circled in her book under the year 1995 included August 13th which said, "Anniversary" next to it, December 1st which said "David told me," next to it, and December 3rd and 4th with an arrow pointing to the 4th and "1:38 a.m. Adrianne" written next to it. (Jones was murdered at approximately 1:38 am on December 4th.)

Prosecutor Michael Parrish
Prosecutor Michael Parrish questions Naval legal assistant Jeffrey Alcorn during direct examination
Alcorn also read an entry under April 10, 1996 that said, "I told mom." During cross-examination, defense attorney Don Gandy asked Alcorn who told him to search Diane's room, how he searched her confidential locker and if he was present when she was questioned by Grand Prairie Police. Most importantly, he asked Alcorn to read another entry from Diane's date book: an April 12th 1996 entry that said "BC." Gandy suggested that BC may stand for birth control, implying that birth control was what Diane had told her mom about two days before.

The defense then recalled previous witness John Green, David Graham's friend, to the stand. Under direct examination by the defense, Green denied that he had ever witnessed an alleged incident in which Graham tried to choke Zamora with a belt. This was yet another attempt by the defense to portray Graham as the abusive leader in his relationship with Zamora, who, the defense believes, was a helpless follower.

Zamora's defense is expected to start presenting its case when court resumes on Monday.


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