Explaining why bouncer wasn’t mentioned
In cross-examination, Brown suggests to E.M. that she didn’t mention the bouncer to anyone because he wouldn’t support her “story” that other people were buying her drinks that night.
“You would have known that this person could help you escape this group of players, throw them out of the bar, for example, if you were being handled or touched inappropriately?” he asks.
E.M. says she didn’t want to bother someone she knew from high school about anything.
“I try to handle my own issues,” she says. “The thought didn’t occur to me.”
Brown insists she didn’t mention him because he would not back up her story.
E.M. disagrees.
“He would have no idea about what happened later on in the room,” she says.
“I was really embarrassed about what happened to me … I didn’t want anyone to know.”
