UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA

CHERYL LINDSEY SEELHOFF, a married woman, Plaintiff, Tacoma, Washington vs. PAT and SUE WELCH, husband and wife, Defendants.

Docket No. C97-5383FDB Tacoma, Washington August 31, 1998 Trial Volume 1

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE HONORABLE FRANKLIN D. BURGESS UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE, and a Jury.

APPEARANCES: For the Plaintiff:	BARBARA J. DUFFY GWENDOLYN PAYTON KLEIN Lane Powell Spears Lubersky 1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4100 Seattle, Washington 98101-2338
For the Defendants:	RUDY R. LACHENMEIER LORI DeDOBBELAERE Lachenmeier, Enloe & Rall 9600 S.W. Capitol Highway Portland, Oregon 97219
Court Reporter:	Teri Hendrix Union Station Courthouse, Room 3100 1717 Pacific Avenue Tacoma, Washington 98402 (253) 593-6545

Proceedings recorded by mechanical stenography, transcript produced by Reporter on computer.

Excerpt from transcripts Volume 1 August 31, 1998 Pages 1-209


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1  satisfy themselves that I was repentant for having had this
2  adulterous relationship, and reconcile with Claude.
3  BY MS. DUFFY:
4  Q. Did they explain to you at all what the consequences would
5  be in the event you didn't follow the list?
6  A. Yes, they said if I did not perform this list, that they
7  would expose my sin to their church. They would tell the church
8  that I was guilty of this unrepentant sin of adultery.
9  Q. How did you leave it with the Williamses after this
10   conversation?
11  A. Well, I was pretty horrified because I did not expect this,
12  and I didn't believe that it was right. I was not a member of
13  their church. I was not going to their church. There was no
14  reason for them to talk about me to their church, and I
15  certainly was not willing as a single parent of nine children at
16  the time to not answer my phone and not go anywhere alone, and
17  the other, not publish the magazine that supported my family.
18  And I certainly was not going to abide by their requests, and I
19  left, and I didn't agree.
20  Q. These requests that were given to you, did they come out of
21  the blue?
22  A. Yes.
23  Q. Were you offered any sort of explanation as to why they were
24  being offered?
25  A. They just said they believed that I wasn't repentant. They

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1  didn't believe I had any grounds to file for divorce or not to
2  reconcile with Claude.
3  They believed my adultery was a sin, and that therefore they
4  were going to do these things -- they were going to deliver this
5  list of demands, and that's what I recall.
6  Q.  Prior to this conversation when these conditions were
7  delivered to you, can you tell us a little bit about what was
8  going on with Claude Lindsey, your then husband?
9  A.  Prior to this time? Because at this time he was in New
10  Orleans again. You mean prior to -
11  Q.  Did you have any interest in reconciling with your husband
12  Claude Lindsey?
13  A.  Well, yeah, before I left for CHEO, I knew that my
14  ex-husband was not interested in reconciliation. He had all
15  told the children, he had told me, and he had -- we had had
16  very negative interactions from the time he came back, the end
17  of May until he left again in June. And I did not believe that
18  we would be reconciled.
19  Q.  Tell me about those negative interactions that you had
20  during that time frame.
21  A.  My ex-husband returned to Washington the last couple days of
22  May 1994. He moved into the house long enough to gain access to
23  my purse and my checkbook and my bank deposits.
24      MR. LACHENMEIER: Objection, personal knowledge.
25      THE COURT: I am going to sustain the objection,