9/27/99: Deposition of Det. Bryan Green, in regard to Chief Hanson’s endorsement of Green’s enlisting Shawn Padden as a confidential informant:

Q: Did Chief Hanson know you were going to have the meeting with (Padden) at that time?

A: Yeah …..

Q: How did you know Shawn Patton?

A: Hanson … had been up to his apartment and found a marijuana plant growing in his apartment, and Mark kept it. And he wanted me to talk to him (Padden) to see if he was willing to work that off.

Q: Mark Hanson, of course, is the police chief in Hawley?

A: Yes …

Q: And the reasons you got involved with Padden is because it initially came to you from Chief Hanson … ?

A: Right….

Q: What did you discuss with Chief Hanson?

A: I told him I would try to sign him (Padden) up as a CI (confidential informant) and see if we can make some buys.

Q: After you had the meeting with Padden?

A: We (Hanson and I) kind of discussed it before. And afterwards, yeah, I think I did, I did talk to him about what he was told.

Q: You told him (Hanson) that Padden was willing to become a CI?

A: Yeah.

Q: What did Chief Hanson say about that?

A: Fine, I think. He didn’t say anything on the contrary that I can remember.