Courtroom Simulation:
Fourth Amendment Issues at Teen House Party

United States v. Daniel McPherson

Affidavit

United States of America v. Daniel McPherson

District of (name)

Mrs. Erin Hofstra, being duly sworn, deposes and says:

I am a lawyer employed in private practice in Brooksville, about fifty miles north of East Town. I specialize in wills, estates, and other probate issues. I received my Bachelor's Degree in History from New State College and my Jurisdoctorate from Commonwealth University.

On July 14, 2004, Amanda McPherson, the late-grandmother of the Defendant, Daniel McPherson, employed my services to draft her will. Amanda McPherson's late husband, the owner of a local bank, left her a substantial sum of money. She also made arrangements so that, upon her passing, I would be designated as the Administrator of her estate.

Amanda McPherson died on February 22, 2006. The terms of her will designated that $225,000, the majority of her money, would go to her son, the Defendant's father, Harold McPherson. The will provided instructions that this money be used by him, his wife, and their son, the Defendant. The will also made a provision that $50,000 be distributed to a local charity, and that $10,000 be distributed directly to her only grandson, the Defendant.

All probate issues concerning the late-Amanda McPherson's estate were settled by decree of the Probate Court on March 17, 2006. As Administrator of the late-Amanda McPherson's estate, I distributed all monies to the appropriate parties, including the Defendant, on April 19, 2006.

Although I do not know the specifics of the criminal charges being brought to bear against the Defendant, Daniel McPherson, I can attest that it is quite plausible that the Defendant came into a sum of money of $10,000 by legal means through this inheritance.

Erin Hofstra, Esq.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this first day of July, 2006.

SEAL

/sig/
Mike Farrell
Notary Public

My commission expires January 2009.

Adapted from: West's Legal Forms: 3rd Ed. Vol. 27. (Bradford Stone, General Ed.; St. Paul Minnesota, West Publishing Co., 1996). Return to Text