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ne cee ee ee cee tee mn ee eer: my life again from scratch. It means that 4f I work like a dog for a few years, I might © - have a wardrobe, transportation, and a plece : to stay. If you subpoena me, not only will I probably lose my job, but in my opinion it certainly won't be at all conducive to my -parole... When I am released, I will have the $68.00 they give me and a desire to stay out. Please don't cause me any unnecessary harassment. wo, It isn't in my nature to be nice to someone trying to get me killed. You people talking about protection, whom do you think you could .. protect? Certainly no inmate. There are many other inmates who were present at the Soledad Training Facility who possess information heip- , ful and necessary to the defense of the plaintiffs. The ; acts and conduct of the defendants have’ so intimidated them that they fear for their lives or for their chances ef parole if they give testimony for the plaintiffs at the . - trial of the cause referred to herein. . . uw —— In an effort to obtain truthful testimony for the plaintiffs, and to afford some protection to inmate witnesses, counsel for pleintiffs appealed to the State Bar of California; attached hereto and made a part hereof are Exhibits D and E which represent the correspondence referred to; the State Bar of California indicated its refusal to assist in che protection of witnesses in any way as appears more particu- larly from said Exhibits. 18 Because of the acts and conduct of defendants as above described, testimony on behalf of plaintiffs may be or is forever lost; testimony which may be available is -l-