White: A couple of inches.
[…]
Alva: The officer was on the sidewalk; is that right?
White: Yes.
Alva: And the man was in the street, is that right?
White: Yes.
Alva: Was the officer on the curb?
White: The sidewalk.42
On the assumption that Faulkner was still in the position that White had described earlier, none of this made any sense since there was just no way how Abu-Jamal, coming from the parking lot and still being in the street, could somehow reach around Faulkner in order to shoot him in the back, but White remained steadfast:
Alva: He was on the sidewalk, so it would have been more than a couple of inches, wouldn’t it, madam?
White: No.43
At this point, Alva let go during his cross examination, but he came back to it witheringly during his recross examination shortly afterwards. After having systematically established that according to White, Officer Faulkner had indeed been standing on the sidewalk in front of Locust 1234, facing in an approximately Northeastern direction, he proceeded to destroy White’s credibility completely:
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