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The Stricken Witness
Garrett Cruz
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Defense trial binder · Vol. 1
Filed under seal
United States District Court
Northern District of California — San Francisco Division
Phillip Burton Federal Building · 450 Golden Gate Avenue
Exhibit A · Defense discovery
Hunters Point Drydock 4 telemetry
SCADA base station 07 · Thursday, October 15, 2026
23:18:04GATE-SOUTH-02Badge scan #419, CarverAuthorized
23:22:15DINER-POS-01South Gate diner, coffee and pie$6.45
23:22–23:36SCADAFourteen-minute gap in the log bufferMissing
23:36:11CRANE-CAB-4Magnetic hatch contactSensor
23:38:42CABIN-CONSOLEBadge #419 at the operator seatKey active
23:41:09HYD-VALVE-P3High-pressure line, 3400 to 0 psiCut
23:44:18WINCH-DRUM-1Brake override trippedDump
23:44:22LOAD-CELL-0441.2 metric tons droppedImpact
Exhibit B · Medical examiner
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, San Francisco
1 Virginia Avenue · ME-26-0982 · Decedent Richard Harland, 52
- Primary injury
- Pelvic crush consistent with a dropped submarine keel module.
- Livor mortis
- Fixed posterior lividity. Blood settled along the back and shoulders. The body was found prone.
- Item EV-14
- Cowhide work gloves stamped Carver union #419, found in the locker.
Exhibit C · Wire audit
Offshore wire
Elena Ward · Target Frank Coyle, relief crane rigger
SWIFT MT-103
Sender: Blackstone Marine Ventures LLC, Nassau, IBC 884192
Beneficiary: Atlantis Casino Resort, Paradise Island, account C-49102
Name on the account: Frank Coyle
Amount: $85,000.00 · Value date Saturday, October 17, 2026, forty-eight hours after the drop
Memo: Discharge of casino credit line in full
Signatory on the shell: Donald Vance, outside counsel to Poseidon Defense Systems
Exhibit D · Trial pad
Courtroom 17 battle card
Witness Frank Coyle · Fed. R. Evid. 611(c)
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Cruz's cross of Frank Coyle
- The rain. Mr. Coyle, you swore you stood sixty feet up on the gantry stairs and recognized Carver's face in the dark. It was raining. Bay fog had cut visibility to under thirty yards.
- The locker key. As relief rigger, you carry the master brass key to the Drydock 4 tool lockers on your belt. Strike the gloves in the locker.
- The resort. You like the baccarat tables in Nassau. Strike the wire.
- The hand-off. Who sent eighty-five thousand dollars to clear that debt forty-eight hours after Harland died? Strike the amount and the date.
Field & Fog Books · Companion to The Stricken Witness by Garrett Cruz