Larry Birkhead: No, I Never Saw Daniel Do Drugs

In spite of the previous post, I was able to contact sources that were in the courtroom today during the inquest hearing for Daniel Smith. Here are the actual highlights of today’s proceedings.

In a Bahamian courtroom, the witness stands when they testify. A chair may be requested but today only two requested a chair. A pregnant woman and Larry Birkhead. That one caused a bit of a chuckle in the audience.

Most remember that Larry Birkhead gave a statement to Bahamian police concerning the death of Daniel Smith in 2006. Today Larry attempted to paint a picture of Daniel as being a rowdy drug using teenager which conflicted with that prior statement.

There have been no medical records out of California or evidence or official reports of Daniel abusing drugs or having drugs in his system contrary to what has been told to the public.

Larry testified that there were cameras mounted to the ceiling in many rooms in Anna Nicole’s house. He said there is a video showing Daniel taking methadone out of the refrigerator. Questioning revealed because of the positioning, there is no possible way to see what was in the refrigerator or taken out of it and that fact was proven today.

As questioning went on and Birkhead’s answers continued to conflict with his 2006 statement that he gave to the Bahamian police, Magistrate Campbell asked Larry to read his statement. Larry refused. Magistrate Campbell admonished Larry and said he has the discretion to detain him in jail for seven days for not cooperating or answering questions and he would do so if Larry did not start answering the questions. Larry said he thinks that he should have an attorney present. The magistrate told him that he is a witness and there is no need for an attorney.

Transcripts are not readily available from the Bahamian court as they are in the United States, so the jury must carefully take notes to refer to when they are in deliberation. At one point, even the jury seemed exasperated with Larry and stopped their usual note taking.

Howard K. Stern’s attorney Wayne Munroe questioned Larry concerning when Anna Nicole was pregnant and in the hospital detoxing from methadone. It was said that even though she was there to detox, Howard gave Anna Nicole the duffel bag containing the very substance that she was detoxing from. Also notable was the fact that Anna Nicole’s doctor entered her hospital room at that time carrying an ultrasound of the baby. The doctor showed the ultrasound picture not to Howard but to Larry as if he knew that Larry was really the father.

All in all, it was not a good day for Larry Birkhead who occasionally covered his face with his hands during testimony. He finally had to admit that not only did he never see or have any personal knowledge of Daniel taking or using drugs but he also never saw or had personal knowledge of Anna Nicole giving Daniel any drugs either.