Panama City, FL - More defendants in the boot camp trial take the stand.

Henry Dickens, Charles Enfinger, Patrick Garrett, Raymond Hauck, Charles Helms, Henry McFadden, Kristin Schmidt, and Joseph Walsh are charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after the January 2006 death of a juvenile offender.

If convicted, the defendants face up to 30 years in prison. 

Lt. Charles Helms, the highest ranking officer on the field the day Martin Anderson collapsed while excercising, began testifying Monday afternoon.  He said it was three minutes 26 seconds from when he stepped onto the field in the videotape until he realized something was wrong with Anderson.

Prosecutor Mike Sinacore began cross examining Helms as court reconvened at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Sinacore asked Helms about the use of ammonia capsules.  Helms said he wasn't sure if Department of Juvenile Justice officials knew drill instructors were being issued ammonia capsules on intake day.

Helms testified his role was trying to assess the situation on the field when the nurse notified him there was a situation with Martin Anderson.  Helms said he didn't have time to figure out how long the incident had been going on or how many times ammonia capsules had been used, because he said he'd never heard ammonia capsules were harmful. 

SGM. Raymond Hauck took the stand at 10:30 a.m.  Hauck says he didn't do anything to harm Martin Anderson, and he was just trying to get him to do what the drill instructors were asking him to do.

Court recessed at 11:40 a.m. for lunch and reconvened at 12:40 p.m. with Hauck facing cross examination from prosecutor Scott Harmon.  Hauck says the nurse came to tell him an offender wasn't complying.  He says he stopped to look at the field from the surveillance room before going onto the field.  Upon question, Haucke said he didn't ask how long the incident with Anderson had been going on when he entered the field toward the end of the altercation.

At one point as Hauck was narrating some of the events from the video tape, Anderson's mother left the room.

Around 1:30 p.m. Patrick Garrett, who was a sergeant at the boot camp, took the stand.  Defense attorney Bob Sombathy asked Garrett about what happened on the practice field that day.  When Sombathy asked what Garrett would change about that day, an emotional Garrett said, "Everything."

Cross examination started around 2:30 p.m., with prosecutor Scott Harmon questioning Garrett.

At 3:30 p.m., Kristin Schmidt, 54, took the stand, questioned by her attorney, Ashley Benedik.  Schmidt was the medical personnel assigned to the Bay County boot camp since it opened in 1994.

Schmidt testified she had never had to call EMS or 911 on intake day at the boot camp.  She said when she was called onto the field on the day of the Anderson incident, she heard him complain he couldn't breathe.  She said he said it clearly and showed no signs of shortness of breath, so she listened to his back with her stethoscope.

Schmidt said she couldn't find anything wrong with Anderson and saw no signs of physical distress. She said she was racking her memory to figure out what could've been wrong with him.  She said at times she stood back because sometimes the offenders could get violent.

Court recessed twice during her testimony, once as Schmidt grew emotional and the second time to make sure she could make it through the rest of the questioning.

Schmidt's testimony took longer than the judge thought, so instead of calling another witness after Schmidt stepped down at 6:15, Judge Michael Overstreet closed court until Wednesday morning.

The four remaining defendants are yet to testify.

Bay County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Siebert will be the next witness after the defendants, followed by a sickle cell expert from Oklahoma.

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