Day One: Abandoned 911 call came in that night

The jury has returned to their seats, and Judge Donalty to his bench.

Gail Haynes has been called to the stand. Haynes is employed at the Oneida County Emergency Services 911.

The translator has asked Haynes to speak slower for the translation.

Haynes describes her work area as 5 consoles set up every day and additional consoles not used every day but in case of emergencies and major storms. By console, she means a desk with a phone system set up on it.

The phone system is in addition to a radio transmission system that allows her to transmit to emergency services and fire, police officials.

She testifies that everything is recorded in real time and kept for 90 days on a computer system hard disk. Unless that information is preserved, it is erased after 90 days, she says.

Haynes worked as a 911 operator from 4 p.m. to midnight that night in April that Lindsey was shot. At 9:44 p.m., she was working, she said, when around that time she got an incoming call from a private individual via 911.

After a description of what an abandoned 911 call is (when they pick up and no one's there). She says if a call comes in abandoned from a residence and they can't get a connection again, they will alert officials.

Haynes says that she received a 10-15 second abandoned call from a cell phone. No one spoke on the call before it hung up, but this abandoned call was recorded.

The D.A. shows paperwork offered in evidence that shows the number that the particular cell phone call came from and what cell tower it hit off of.

This particular call came from number 315-266-8150, Haynes said. A recording of the call is then brought up by the D.A., and is objected to by the defense. The judge allows it.