Defendant's Wife Breaks Down Recalling Deadly Boat Crash

[00:00:00] Ed Armolino: Thank you for listening to the microphone in one direction and the juries in the other direction. Okay. Can I move this together? So I'm going to unplug everything. No, no, we're good. Okay. Very good. Good afternoon, Mrs. Pino. [00:00:21] Cecilia Pino: Good afternoon. [00:00:22] Ed Armolino: My name is Ed Armolino. I represent your husband, George Pino. You've met me before? Yes. We've discussed this case before? Yes. Last week, you testified in front of the jury, correct? Yes. Was that the first time that you've ever testified in a trial? Yes. Is it safe to say you're nervous? [00:00:43] Speaker 3: Yes. [00:00:45] Ed Armolino: So let's start easy. Can you please turn to the jury and tell them your name? [00:00:50] Cecilia Pino: My name is Cecilia Pino. [00:00:52] Ed Armolino: And how old are you? [00:00:54] Cecilia Pino: I am 51. [00:00:56] Ed Armolino: How long have you been married? [00:00:58] Cecilia Pino: We've been married for 25 years. [00:01:00] Ed Armolino: And who are you married to? [00:01:02] Cecilia Pino: George Pino. [00:01:03] Ed Armolino: Can you point to George in the courtroom and identify him by an article of proven? [00:01:07] Cecilia Pino: Yes. He's wearing a black suit and a white shirt and blue tie. [00:01:13] Ed Armolino: Do you need water or tissue? Yes. [00:01:15] Speaker ?: Okay. [00:01:16] Ed Armolino: Yes. What do you do for work? [00:01:18] Cecilia Pino: I work at my husband's company. I'm in charge of marketing and social media and event planning. [00:01:27] Ed Armolino: So what's the name of your husband's company? [00:01:30] Cecilia Pino: State Street Realty. [00:01:32] Ed Armolino: Did you go to college? I did. [00:01:34] Cecilia Pino: Where'd you go? I went to the University of Florida and I graduated with a marketing degree. [00:01:39] Ed Armolino: And do you do marketing now for your husband's company? [00:01:42] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:01:43] Ed Armolino: Prior to working for your husband's company did you have other jobs? I did. [00:01:50] Cecilia Pino: I've worked in retail, I worked in public relations, in a public relations company, I worked in pharmaceutical sales. [00:02:00] Ed Armolino: And then eventually how did you come to work for his company? [00:02:06] Cecilia Pino: When he started the company I wanted to help him and I had a public relations and marketing background so that is what I do for the company. I send out press releases, work on Instagram and social media and marketing and any events I help coordinate. [00:02:27] Ed Armolino: Do you and George have any children? We do. [00:02:30] Cecilia Pino: We have two daughters. And what are their names? Carolina and Cecilia. [00:02:34] Ed Armolino: When, when were they born? [00:02:38] Cecilia Pino: Carolina was born in 2003 and Censi was born in 2004. [00:02:43] Ed Armolino: When they were born did you take any time off work or did you work through that, how did that work? [00:02:49] Cecilia Pino: I did, I was in pharmaceutical sales at the time and my husband and I decided that I would stay home and raise my girls. [00:02:59] Ed Armolino: Did you, as they grew up were you involved heavily in the schools? Yes. [00:03:04] Cecilia Pino: Both my girls went to Epiphany School and which is also where George and I went and I was very involved in the school. I've always been involved in the school. I've always been involved in their schools whether it's as a real mom, the mom, when they play soccer, like the, in charge of the team mom. I eventually went to a different school and I was a mentor liaison there which coordinated when new families would come. I would help connect those families to existing families and I was involved there and in their extracurricular that they did for the school I helped. They called me there for soccer mom as well. [00:03:53] Ed Armolino: You said you were a room mom, what does that mean? [00:03:55] Cecilia Pino: A room mom is like when the, each class has a parent, a room parent, it can be a dad as well. And you help the teacher coordinate if there's activities or you're the liaison between the teacher and the family. [00:04:13] Ed Armolino: So as a room mom did you become familiar with any of the students that were in the class? Yes. And did, were those, any of those students friendly with your daughter? Yes. Do you remember at Epiphany any of the girls who, you were a room mom for that class? [00:04:31] Cecilia Pino: Yes, my girls have had a lot of their friends have been lifelong friends from their days at Epiphany and high school too. [00:04:40] Ed Armolino: And we'll get there but eventually on September 4th, 2022 here, there was a boating accident, right? Yes. And there were, how many girls were on the boat that were friends with your daughter? [00:04:54] Cecilia Pino: There were 11 girls on the boat. And so, Ceci has had a relationship, my daughter's from Epiphany when they started in pre-K four with most of these girls. Kathy, Claudia, Lucy, Nati, Carolina, they all went to Epiphany together. [00:05:21] Ed Armolino: And when they went to Epiphany from that young age, did they come over your house a lot too? Yes. And when they would come over, would Mr. Pino be there too? Yes. Did Mr. Pino know those girls? [00:05:35] Cecilia Pino: Yes. We have known those girls and we've loved those girls since they were little. [00:05:42] Ed Armolino: And the, well let's talk about your husband a little bit. You said you were married for 25 years? Yes. So, when you, where did he go to college? [00:06:04] Cecilia Pino: George went to Epiphany. [00:06:06] Ed Armolino: And what did he do after that? [00:06:08] Cecilia Pino: He. Judge Brown, that's your honor. Oh. George has always had, he's always worked and after college he got into property management. And property management is, you have like a big business part commercial. He worked for a company and he was a property manager for that company. So, he was in charge of making sure the landscape was maintained, the buildings were maintained. He, making sure the tenants were happy if they needed the building painted, they would let him know. So, he was very good at building relationships with people. Eventually that company had a real estate division and people saw him and they kind of brought him over to the real estate division. And that is how he got involved in commercial real estate. And he's, he's loved that job. He's very good at it. He's a people person and a hard, very hard worker. And we, he opened up his company in 2011. [00:07:17] Ed Armolino: So, he opened that company up after he learned the ropes first through? Yes. The years? Yes. Okay. On September 4th, 2022, were you and your family members of the Ocean Reef Club? Yes, we were. And how long were you members of Ocean Reef Club? [00:07:36] Cecilia Pino: We've been members of the Ocean Reef Club since 2004. [00:07:40] Ed Armolino: Right, you were what's called social members, right? [00:07:43] Cecilia Pino: Yes, we were social members and we would spend a lot of our summers there. We, we would go there. We actually found, George found a house that they rented to us for, I think it was like a thousand dollars a month. And we would go there for, but it started first just going weekends. And then we eventually started going, we'd rent for like three months. And George would commute back and forth because the commute wasn't even as, it was sometimes better than our candle home too. Let me stop you. [00:08:22] Ed Armolino: Okay. So you said George, meaning Mr. Pino would commute to Ocean Reef Club and then back to your home? Yes. And your home was in Miami-Dade? Yes. And was Mr. Pino working through the summer while that was happening? [00:08:35] Cecilia Pino: Yes, what I meant is he would sometimes commute, like while the girls and I, if we were there in Ocean Reef, he would commute from Ocean Reef sometimes to work. Because the traffic is sometimes better, that was faster that way than from our candle home to, to Iraq. [00:08:51] Ed Armolino: Okay, so depending on where he was going then. [00:08:53] Cecilia Pino: Yes, yes. But we would spend the summers there and, you know, my friends would laugh because he would, when he would take off time, it would, it would be, they would call it Camp George. And he's always been very active, very involved with the kids. He loved to plan. You know, today we're going to wake up and we're going to play pickleball and tennis and we're going to go on the boat and we're going to go snorkeling. And I'm more, like I like to just relax and read a book or something and he, he's always been very active and, and love to do any activities that were going on. [00:09:30] Ed Armolino: So, you mentioned a boat. So, you mentioned a boat. The, the blue boat, I think. There's a big one up. both um big one um the showing the witness um what's been marked as it for ID marked for ID as Exhibit 1H just for reference this this boat is the boat that was in the accident on September 4th 2022 yes okay so prior to to this boat um did you and your family own another boat yes we did it was a yellow boat no just a mantra um the the other boat that you owned previously what uh kind of boat was it it was a yellow rebutton as well I'm showing uh the witness what's been marked for ID as Exhibit A22 well I'm showing oh the state yes showing the state I'm now showing the witness what's been marked as A22 Mrs. Pino take a look at that do you do you recognize that yes this is our yellow boat uh is that the boat that you previously owned to the blue boat yes and you've seen this picture before yes so is it all for A22 into evidence [00:11:32] Speaker 3: no objection [00:11:32] Ed Armolino: we don't have a reaction [00:11:33] Speaker 3: A22 marked for identification now defense exhibit S [00:11:38] Ed Armolino: just can the witness step down so I'm publishing exhibit S now um for the jurors [00:11:58] Speaker ?: this is kind of step here so you can see um do you see numbers here on the engine yes [00:12:03] Ed Armolino: what are the numbers there [00:12:05] Cecilia Pino: 225 225 [00:12:06] Ed Armolino: did you know what that means [00:12:07] Cecilia Pino: the the motor's on 225 horseback [00:12:12] Speaker ?: okay thank you [00:12:19] Ed Armolino: so as members uh of ocean reef club you you had that boat at ocean reef club yes um as members there did you oftentimes vacation with some of your friends [00:12:41] Cecilia Pino: yes we like who um we had a big a lot of friends that were members um and we Andy and Melissa were members and we would see them there in the summers a lot and that's really where the girls hung out a lot um and we would always take friends we always had girls with us and a lot of the parents of the girls would also attend a ocean reef club [00:13:08] Ed Armolino: and we would see them there and hang out with them there okay and to clarify just to for clarity when you say Andy and Melissa you mean Andy and Melissa Fernandez correct and when you say the girls uh who are you referring to are the kids adults [00:13:21] Cecilia Pino: hey Lucy Fancy Dati um Foco would come with us all the girls we've taken there before okay and on any of these trips is this where it would be kind of like camp george's like you said yes [00:13:35] Ed Armolino: okay so um so how long have you personally known Andy Fernandez [00:13:48] Cecilia Pino: Andy and I were friends since Epiphany and when we both attended [00:13:52] Ed Armolino: I know it's hard but I I couldn't hear you I don't know [00:13:58] Cecilia Pino: I'm sorry he and I went to elementary school together in Epiphany [00:14:02] Ed Armolino: and Epiphany right yes Epiphany school um and how would you characterize your friendship from that point forward he was my best friend did he know uh Mr. Pino that long no when did he meet Mr. Pino [00:14:22] Cecilia Pino: I believe Andy and George got to know each other when I after I started dating George some of the other boys that I was friends with knew George uh from family they they had known each other since they were little [00:14:40] Ed Armolino: and um were your families close meaning your family and the Fernandez family when you were little [00:14:46] Cecilia Pino: um well my mother was the secretary at Epiphany school so his parents knew my my parents like that [00:14:58] Ed Armolino: um what about through high school and college you guys remained friends we were very close through high [00:15:04] Cecilia Pino: school all through high school all through college Andy read at my wedding we were always very close friends your families were vacation together correct we would see would your families vacation together we would see each other at ocean reef in the summers and hang out together okay [00:15:26] Ed Armolino: i'm going to fast forward a little bit now to the weekend of labor day in 2022 okay you remember that weekend yes [00:15:34] Cecilia Pino: so what was the plan for the weekend we were celebrating my daughter's birthday and we were going to have some girls we had rented a house and they were going to stay with us and we were going to go um have a day of a day of activities and then end it with a like a party or dinner at a place called the point [00:16:00] Ed Armolino: before that though on on saturday um you did you host any kind of party or dinner at your house saturday [00:16:08] Cecilia Pino: um the girls had had the night before they were at a columbus beach bash party so i drove from ocean reef because i was there i drove down i met them at my house we drove to ocean reef and then that night um we went to um i had like a day i had made lasagna and we had a dinner party at my house with the girls and the boys [00:16:34] Ed Armolino: and how many people attended the party around 20. um you cook for everybody lasagna yes um so in the house that you rented for that weekend uh you had girls staying there yes how many how many [00:16:52] Cecilia Pino: girls do you remember saturday night there was about um it was nine girls stayed at the house because one of the girls stayed with her parents that evening and two of the girls showed up on sunday [00:17:12] Ed Armolino: so you had how many girls nine nine girls and you and mr pino that's 11 right yes so how did you get [00:17:20] Cecilia Pino: to 20 people at the party we had the boys the group of boys it was about six or seven boys that came and we had there was uh two other couples with us okay and they were there that weekend as well to [00:17:34] Ed Armolino: yes celebrate yes so let's turn now to sunday how did the day start we woke up and we watched a virtual mass [00:17:46] Cecilia Pino: and with whoever woke up and we went to play pickleball george had arranged like a little pickleball tournament with the girls and the boys and the adults well let me stop you said you had a virtual mass what what does that mean you watch mass on virtual on the computer versus going out to key largo and who watched it i believe it was george and myself uh ceci sarah and andrea had already gotten there i think lalian pao so a few of the people there yes [00:18:18] Ed Armolino: yes and then after that ended what did you guys do we went to the pickleball courts and george had [00:18:25] Cecilia Pino: arranged a pickleball tournament with the boys and some of the parents as well so the pickleball [00:18:32] Ed Armolino: tournament you said with the boys do you mean including the boys or only the boys including the boys it was the girls the boys they all played and some of the adults were yes okay so right now we know pickleball tournament happens was that successful yeah everyone had fun yes and after that um what happened next [00:18:54] Cecilia Pino: then we went back to the house everyone changed and we had lunch and we left on the boat [00:19:05] Ed Armolino: now was the plan that the girls would go with george on the boat yes were there enough seats on the boat for every girl to sit yes did you uh well do you know where you guys were intending to go elliott key and what were you going to do there anchor hang out when you say anchor you mean like at a sandbar yes yes um and did you prepare anything to bring to the sandbar i always make sandwiches and um and i take chips [00:19:44] Cecilia Pino: did you pack any drinks i did not pack any drinks but there were drinks on the boat yes and do you know who packed the drinks i believe george and and his friend and those those drinks included [00:19:55] Ed Armolino: alcoholic drinks yes and you knew that everyone there at the sandbar was going to share a few drinks or [00:20:02] Cecilia Pino: whatever right yes yes now [00:20:08] Ed Armolino: do you know how many people in total were at the sandbar 36 i believe that you actually prepare a list of the people you recall being there yes judge may i approach yes showing the witness what's marked i was ejected being admitted judge no jack okay offer defense a21 into evidence [00:20:31] Speaker 3: 821 marked by d now becomes defense exhibit t [00:20:39] Ed Armolino: i'm showing the witness defense exhibit t mrs pino is this the list that was prepared of the people at the sandbar yes and how many girls were there at the sandbar 13 and and how many boys eight and the um when we say girls and boys you what do you mean by that like non-adults the teenagers yes or or under 21 yes okay and then where where it says adults how many people were at the sandbar 15 and we're all to your knowledge these people sharing in alcoholic beverages at the sandbar yes the uh the uh the 15 uh adults included you and george correct correct so it wasn't 15 plus you two it included you right okay it also included um andy and melissa now [00:22:21] Speaker ?: so [00:22:39] Ed Armolino: at the sandbar uh you testified i think last week you had one to two prosecco's and how do you say it chambord chambord what is that like a liqueur like a flavor thing yes um so when you had those one to two drinks did you yourself feel impaired no um did you feel like you were buzzed no how long were you there at the sandbar two or three hours um now at the sandbar do you do you know if mr pino [00:23:20] Cecilia Pino: was drinking alcohol i didn't see him why didn't you see him i just didn't when you we were there and i was hanging out mostly with the wives i didn't notice if he was or wasn't having i i honestly don't remember [00:23:37] Ed Armolino: i don't i didn't see him all right so you when you say you didn't see him did you physically see him [00:23:43] Cecilia Pino: yes he was there we everybody was together it wasn't you know i know he was there i just don't [00:23:51] Ed Armolino: i didn't and let's go back to the list of the 15 adults approaching the witness with defense exhibit t when you say it was talking to the wives how many wives are there that you were hanging out with [00:24:16] Cecilia Pino: five six women okay uh can you say their names yes lourdes margie tiffany melissa kelly and kelly's friend [00:24:32] Ed Armolino: you and george would go to sandbars often yes and when you would go would this be common for you to hang out with the wives and george to hang out elsewhere yes but you know now that mr pino told the police that he had two beers after this accident occurred right yes would that be something that would be common for him to do at a sandbar yes and you've been married to him for 25 years yes you've observed him have two beers over a couple of hours yes when he does that does mr pinos seem drunk to you no does he seem buzzed no um before leaving the sandbar you both got on the same boat correct yes and you actually did you sit next to him yes i did i don't object on the screen no objection no objection judge i'll offer 827 and 828 into evidence [00:25:53] Speaker 3: 827 mark identification now defense exhibit u 828 defense exhibit v as in victory [00:26:05] Ed Armolino: so i'm showing you u and v defense exhibit u and defense exhibit v but are these the same exact that photo yes one what's the difference between the two why are they two different exhibits [00:26:19] Cecilia Pino: this one looks like if it's from the phone and this one is just uh zoomed in what do you mean this one is from the following this one has the date and the time why don't we why don't we go and show [00:26:30] Ed Armolino: the jury if that's okay thank you so i'm going to sit so i can get closer okay so you got two photos here are they the same photo okay so why why are they two separate exhibits what is that i want you to keep your voice up i'm [00:26:49] Cecilia Pino: so so that time on exhibit you on the top left there what does that time say what is what is that time [00:27:10] Ed Armolino: the screenshot yes okay and then what is this date here september 4 2022 correct what is that is that the date the picture was taken yes and then what about the that great time there underneath that what number does that say [00:27:26] Cecilia Pino: that's what if it says 1831 it's military but it's 631. that would be 6 31 p.m yes okay [00:27:43] Ed Armolino: and mrs pino that that's you on the left there correct and the person there with the white hat who's that that's george that's george so you were sitting right next to mr pino on the boat right yes um so before you left the sandbar [00:28:20] Cecilia Pino: what did you do i got on the boat and i was cleaning up i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry sorry try to speak into the mic i i got on the boat and i was cleaning up the boat i was picking up the trash the chips the the cans and putting them away when you say the cans and stuff you mean the the empties [00:28:42] Ed Armolino: that were on the boat yes um and is that that's before you you mr pino actually drove away from the sandbar yes that's correct so at some point did mr pino come onto the boat yes and when he did you before you guys sat in your seat did you interact with him yes and you observed him up close yes and did you uh believe that he was impaired by alcohol no and if you did believe that would [00:29:09] Cecilia Pino: you let him drive the boat no i would never help why not because i would never put myself or any of those girls at risk and one moment [00:29:32] Ed Armolino: judge i believe there is no objection i'm going to offer out of order 829 830 831 832 and 833 into evidence all right without objection it's not in order i'm so sorry [00:30:14] Speaker 3: 829 becomes defective defense exhibit w 830 defense exhibit x 831 defense exhibit Defense Exhibit Y, 832, Defense Exhibit Z, 833, Defense Exhibit 2A. [00:30:50] Speaker ?: Thank you. [00:30:57] Ed Armolino: Okay, Mrs. Pino, I'll go through these with you. Defense Exhibit W. Do you recognize who's in this photograph? [00:31:10] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:31:11] Ed Armolino: Who is it? [00:31:14] Cecilia Pino: Cammie, Ceci, and George. [00:31:16] Ed Armolino: Your name's Ceci, and you say Ceci, you mean your daughter? Yes. And do you know when this photo was taken? [00:31:22] Cecilia Pino: The day of the accident. [00:31:26] Ed Armolino: Is this at Billy's Point at the sandbar? [00:31:28] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:31:31] Ed Armolino: Is it a public check? Showing Defense Exhibit X, do you recognize the people in this picture? [00:31:53] Cecilia Pino: Yes. Yes. Yes. [00:31:56] Ed Armolino: Who are they? [00:31:58] Cecilia Pino: Carolina, Lucy, Coco, Claudia, and Ceci, and George. [00:32:05] Ed Armolino: Where's George? [00:32:08] Cecilia Pino: He was doing book park and stuff. [00:32:13] Ed Armolino: Okay, and was this taken on September 4th, 2022? [00:32:16] Speaker 3: Yes, it was. [00:32:17] Ed Armolino: Was this before you left Billy's Point to head back to Ocean Reef? [00:32:20] Speaker 3: Yes, it was. [00:32:21] Speaker ?: Yes, it was. [00:32:25] Ed Armolino: This is Defense Ex. Give me a second. [00:32:37] Speaker ?: Okay. [00:32:38] Ed Armolino: Okay, kind of do these faster so we can just, okay. This is Defense Y, Defense Z already in evidence, and Defense 2A. Do you recognize these photographs? Yes. And were they all taken on September 4th, 2022? [00:33:00] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:33:01] Ed Armolino: Were they all taken at the sandbar? [00:33:03] Cecilia Pino: This one was not. [00:33:05] Ed Armolino: Where was this one taken? [00:33:06] Cecilia Pino: We were leaving out of Ocean Reef because you could see the house or condo there. [00:33:12] Ed Armolino: Okay so the vote's idling here? [00:33:14] Cecilia Pino: Yes. Okay. [00:33:18] Speaker ?: You're a public judge? Yes. [00:33:42] Ed Armolino: Now, Mrs. Pino, just going back a second. When you testified earlier that you were cleaning up the boat, picking up empties. Were there a lot of empties on your boat? Yes, there were. And why? [00:34:00] Cecilia Pino: When the kids were mostly hanging around the boys and girls and whoever is around the boat, usually they just throw whatever you're drinking on that boat because you're not going to hold the whole time. So we had whoever was hanging around the boat would throw it with adults. [00:34:24] Ed Armolino: Did you observe that? [00:34:25] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:34:28] Ed Armolino: Now, on the way back to Ocean Reef, you said you were sitting next to Mr. Pino? [00:34:40] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:34:43] Ed Armolino: What were you doing? [00:34:45] Cecilia Pino: I was sending a text to the moms of the, right before we left, the girls were all dancing and singing. And I was videotaping them and I was sending the video to the moms and the little blue line wasn't going through. [00:35:03] Ed Armolino: And exhibit, defense exhibit B, you want a tissue? No, I'm fine. Okay. This one, this is the picture of George driving the boat and you're sitting next to him? Yes. You're kind of looking down, right? Yes. Is that your, you're on your phone there trying to send a message? [00:35:21] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:35:30] Ed Armolino: Do you know who took this picture? [00:35:32] Cecilia Pino: Mia. [00:35:35] Ed Armolino: Now, you're trying to send this message and it's not going through. Did you get messages through though? You were sending some pictures or no? [00:35:52] Cecilia Pino: The video went through later. [00:35:55] Ed Armolino: It went through later. Yes. What's the next thing you remember? [00:36:00] Cecilia Pino: The next thing I remember is being on the side of the boat. Being on the side of the boat and there were a couple girls in front of me and I told them to jump because water was coming on the boat. So I told them to jump. And then I remember coming out of the water, like getting my head out of the water and seeing Mia and Cammie. And I grabbed Mia and Mia's a little, she's bigger than me, she's taller than me. So it was hard for me and there was a cushion floating and Cammie was there and I asked Cammie to send me, give me the cushion so I could hold Mia. And I was holding the cushion and feeling Mia and Cammie and I remember just turning around and seeing some of the girls and saying, who's missing, who's missing? And I heard a boat and I just remember seeing a boat, some boats coming, a big grey boat and I told the girl, swim to the boat, swim to the boat. The girl swam to the boat and again I said, who is missing? And that's when I heard that it was Lucy missing. And I was just in the water and another boat came and grabbed Mia from me and they took Mia to the big boat and I was just trying to find Lucy in the water. And then that little boat came and got me on the boat and then from... [00:37:35] Ed Armolino: So let me stop. Okay. Let me take you back. Take a sip of water. So. So. You're trying to send a video, right? Yes. Next thing you know, you said you were straddling the side of the boat? [00:38:13] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:38:15] Ed Armolino: I'm going to show you State's Exhibit 11. Do you recognize this? [00:38:26] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:38:27] Ed Armolino: Is this the rubavo? Yes. Do you see here in pink where it says Mrs. Pinot? Yes. I have a blue pen here. If you can just mark down kind of where you ended up. If the next thing you remember, you said straddling the side of the boat, just write your name. Here. [00:38:48] Speaker ?: Okay. [00:38:49] Ed Armolino: Do you put a blue circle with a C in the middle of Mrs. Pinot? You put a blue circle with a C in the middle of Mrs. Pinot? [00:38:53] Speaker ?: You put a blue circle with a C in the middle of Mrs. Pinot. [00:38:54] Ed Armolino: You put a blue circle with a C in the middle of Mrs. Pinot. [00:38:55] Speaker ?: You put a blue circle with a C in the middle of Mrs. Pinot. You wanted the girls to jump out of the boat? Yes. [00:39:06] Ed Armolino: Is that because it was sinking? Yes. Now, at this time you're in the water, you're- What are you feeling? Chaos? Yes. [00:39:28] Speaker ?: We were in the water. [00:39:29] Cecilia Pino: I didn't- I had Mia and Cammy and I just remember turning around and seeing some of the girls and just, you know, I knew I had to get them- I didn't see anything near us, but I knew I had to get them to somewhere. So, I remember just seeing a big, great boat coming towards us and going like this and- and that's when I told the girls swim to the boat, swim to the boat. And they swam towards the boat and that's when I remember asking again, "Who is missing? Who is missing?" And that's when they told me that. [00:40:13] Ed Armolino: Um, were- were you rescued by that little gray boat? No. Which boat rescued you? [00:40:24] Cecilia Pino: Yeah, a little boat. The- the gray boat was a big boat where the girls were and there was a little boat that came and grabbed Mia from me, took me into the big boat and then came to get Cammy and I. [00:40:37] Ed Armolino: Um, when you were on that boat, did- did you see Mr. Pino? [00:40:44] Cecilia Pino: When I was on that boat is when I finally saw George by the boat- by our boat. [00:40:51] Ed Armolino: So, the- the whole time you're in the water, do you even think about Mr. Pino? No. [00:40:57] Speaker ?: No. No. No, I didn't. [00:41:00] Cecilia Pino: I was just thinking of the girls. [00:41:05] Ed Armolino: And when you- when you first saw him, what did you- what did you see? [00:41:09] Cecilia Pino: He was just a little head bobbing by the boat. And he just looked, you know, like- he was just shocked and- I just saw him sit on it. [00:41:27] Ed Armolino: Um, after the accident, did you suffer any injuries? [00:41:42] Cecilia Pino: I did. I had a gash in the front of my head. [00:41:48] Ed Armolino: Um, were you taken from the scene? [00:41:51] Cecilia Pino: Yes, I was taken from the middle boat. They took me to- I don't forget where, but I was airlifted by helicopter to Jackson Sound. No. [00:42:02] Ed Armolino: And, um, while this is going on, did you see your husband at all? [00:42:06] Cecilia Pino: No. [00:42:07] Ed Armolino: Um, so, did you have any idea what was going on at the scene at this time? You're- you're no longer there? [00:42:16] Cecilia Pino: No. [00:42:17] Ed Armolino: When's the next time you saw Mr. Pino? [00:42:20] Cecilia Pino: I saw him the next day. Um, I checked myself out of the hospital and I- I got home and I saw him at home. [00:42:28] Ed Armolino: And do you know if he went to the hospital? [00:42:30] Cecilia Pino: Yes, he did. [00:42:32] Ed Armolino: Um, you- did you observe that he had any injuries? Yes. [00:42:38] Cecilia Pino: He- when I saw him, he had staples in his head. He had- his teeth were fractured. He had, um, he had- his elbow had stitches. He had a gash on his leg. [00:42:53] Ed Armolino: I'm showing the witness what's marked as A23 for identification. Mrs. Pino, have you ever seen this picture? [00:43:14] Cecilia Pino: Yes. [00:43:15] Ed Armolino: What is it a picture of? [00:43:16] Cecilia Pino: My husband's teeth. [00:43:17] Ed Armolino: How do you know that? [00:43:18] Cecilia Pino: Because it's my husband. [00:43:20] Ed Armolino: And does it fairly and accurately depict what his teeth look like after this accident? Yes. Judge, I'd offer A23 into evidence? [00:43:28] Speaker 3: No, Judge. [00:43:29] Cecilia Pino: Thank you very much. [00:43:30] Speaker 3: 823. More identification now. Defense exhibit 2B. Thank you. [00:43:36] Speaker ?: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [00:43:42] Ed Armolino: Thank you. After the accident, did Mr. Pino go back to work immediately? No. Did he take some time off? Yes. Do you remember how much? [00:44:12] Cecilia Pino: Um, it- his company, so, um, it probably took him months, um, and his partner would come. George, after the accident, it was very different, yeah. He would just stay in bed, and he was very depressed, and anxious, and he would sleep. And, um, it took him a long time before he could get to work. And, even to this day, he's not completely. Judge and relevant, Judge. It took him a while before he could go. [00:44:51] Ed Armolino: Sorry. Question, sorry. [00:44:53] Speaker ?: Mm-hm. [00:45:10] Ed Armolino: Judge, can we have a five minute reset? [00:45:13] Speaker ?: Do you have any questions? Just a few, but. Okay. All right.