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Mr. Infeld stated to police that judge Dinsdale walked behind the defendant five separate times on the afternoon in question. On the afternoon of February 27, 2013, you and Officer Bryant left your division while on patrol? Felix Garwood called you on the afternoon that Rose Anderson was murdered. On the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 June I had an appointment with three respectable, peaceable Chinese citizens at a hotel in Beijing. They left without him on the afternoon tide. Did you receive a call from the defendant on the afternoon of September 8th? Look, Marilyn, was at a class reunion on the afternoon of September 7. Seeing as how he was tailing our victim, he knew exactly where Swan was on the afternoon of his death.	In the afternoon, when the grown ups were napping... In the afternoon, you had a game against All Saints. In the afternoon, the light would have come from there. I finished Interviewing rob around 4:00 In the afternoon yesterday. In the afternoon, we could go there and nobody'd find us. I thought I might do a little light doctoring In the afternoon. And so right around 5:00 In the afternoon It starts getting dark, And I'm like, "i got to be In the daylight just once."

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Mr. Infeld stated to police that judge Dinsdale walked behind the defendant five separate times on the afternoon in question.
On the afternoon of February 27, 2013, you and Officer Bryant left your division while on patrol?
Felix Garwood called you on the afternoon that Rose Anderson was murdered.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 June I had an appointment with three respectable, peaceable Chinese citizens at a hotel in Beijing.
They left without him on the afternoon tide.
Did you receive a call from the defendant on the afternoon of September 8th?
Look, Marilyn, was at a class reunion on the afternoon of September 7.
Seeing as how he was tailing our victim, he knew exactly where Swan was on the afternoon of his death.

In the afternoon, when the grown
ups were napping...
In the afternoon, you had a game against All Saints.
In the afternoon, the light would have come from there.
I finished Interviewing rob around 4:00 In the afternoon yesterday.
In the afternoon, we could go there and nobody'd find us.
I thought I might do a little light doctoring In the afternoon.
And so right around 5:00 In the afternoon It starts getting dark, And I'm like, "i got to be In the daylight just once."