Dale Hausner
Live from the courtroom: Judge Roland Steinle has given prosecutors a deadline of the end of the day to finish their questioning of Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner. The suspect has been on the witness stand for five days total, with three of them spent under intense scrutiny from prosecutor Vince Imbordino, who has been trying constantly to expose Hausner as a liar.
Earlier today, the judge said three days is enough. Imbordino was ordered to finish up by 4 p.m. because Steinle said he believes no new ground is being covered. “I’m just giving you notice right now that you need to move it along because I’m not going to give you more time tomorrow,” Steinle said from the bench.
Since then, Hausner has appeared to be stalling with many of his answers. For example, when Imbordino was asking about what Hausner was doing on the night of June 20, 2006 when Frederic Cena and Tony Long were shot, Hausner asked to take a look at a day planner he says he kept during that time. Hausner studied the notebook for a few moments, then said, “Nothing’s in my day planner.”
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He then asked to look through his cell phone records. He looked at those for a few moments as well, then announced that he had received a call on his cell phone, which he said he took at his home in Mesa, about the time one of the shootings was taking place.
All in all, the short answer took a few minutes to arrive at. But for Hausner, it ate up some of the prosecution’s valuable time to poke holes in his testimony.
Hausner is accused of killing eight people and wounding at least 17 others during a shooting spree in 2005 and 2006. He has pleaded not guilty to his charges and denied any knowledge of the shootings.