Excerpt from Woodmansee's
testimony at the PFC hearing

[What follows is a relevant excerpt from Oct. 15, 1998, hearing before the Madison Police and Fire Commission, from the official transcript. This proceeding was initiated by Isthmus news editor Bill Lueders against Lt. Dennis George Riley of the Madison Police Department. At issue was Riley's conduct after he received two letters from Patty, a woman who alleged that Madison detectives under Riley's supervision used lies and threats in the course of getting her to recent her report that she was the victim of rape. The attorney, Paul Schwarzenbart, was hired by the city of Madison to defend Riley.]

RECROSS - EXAMINATION BY MR. SCHWARZENBART:

Q Detective Woodmansee, I believe you testified that you had forwarded the matter to the District Attorney’s office prior to the time that this letter was disclosed to you in late October 1997, is that correct? A That’s correct.

Q And when you forwarded the matter to the District Attorney’s office what you did was you sent the DA’s office a copy of the file as it existed at that point in time, is that correct?

A That’s correct.

Q And so prior to this letter coming in or prior to you seeing the letter in late October of 1997, the report that you had done on your investigation would have already been in the hands of the DA’s office, is that correct?

A That’s correct.

[End of excerpt.]