Declaration of Terry Collingsworth

EXHIBIT 21 FILED WITH REDACTIONS

PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE

ORDER (DOC. 127)

FILED 2015 Mar-05 PM 07:08

U.S. DISTRICT COURT

N.D. OF ALABAMA

Case 2:11-cv-03695-RDP-TMP Document 187-21 Filed 03/05/15 Page 1 of 4

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

SOUTHERN DIVISION

DRUMMOND COMPANY, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

TERRENCE P. COLLINGSWORTH, et al.,

Defendants.

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Case No 2:11-cv-3695-RDP

DECLARATION OF TERRENCE P. COLLINGSWORTH IN OPPOSITION TO DRUMMONDS RENEWED MOTION FOR SANCTIONS

I, Terrence P. Collingsworth, declare as follows:

1. I am a partner at Conrad & Scherer, LLP. I am also a defendant in the present

libel case, Drummond Co., Inc. v. Collingsworth, et al., No. 2:11-cv-3695-RDP (N.D. Ala.). I

provide this declaration based on my personal knowledge and can testify under oath to all of the

facts herein.

2. I have been an attorney, and have been proud to be one, for 32 years. Virtually

all of my work has been in the area of human rights where I have strived to help people who

have been severely injured by violations of international human rights norms. I am profoundly

sorry for what has occurred and I apologize to the Court for any errors I have committed. I want

to personally assure Your Honor that I never meant to deceive you or to show any disrespect to

the Court.

3. As I think about my statements made in court at the hearing in April 2014, I am at

a loss to provide an adequate explanation. There simply is none.

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4. I have made a diligent effort to fix these problems after this Courts October 15,

2014 order made crystal clear that the issues of payments relating to witness protection is

intended to be extremely broad, as the definitions of witness and payment show.

5. That said, I will provide you some observations that may assist the Court in

determining how to handle this situation.

6. The Court can determine to what extent these justify or do not justify the

statements, in the particular context in which they were made. That would include the extreme

difficulties of protecting witnesses against threats to their lives, and my desire to get to the truth

about Drummond.

7. I apologize and promise to be very careful not to let this happen again.

8. At the April 21, 2014 hearing on Drummonds motion for sanctions, the Court

asked my counsel, Bradley Smith, questions about security payments to witnesses.

9. I stood up and volunteered to answer the Courts questions, even though I was not

expecting to make any statements at the hearing. While I was familiar with the documents at

issue in Drummonds motion, I had not reviewed the factual record of the case, including all

discovery requests and objections, prior to the hearing.

10. My statements to the Court regarding security payments were inaccurate and they

were wrong.

11. When the Court asked about security payments for families of witnesses who had

testified in Balcero, I responded that we were assisting or had assisted the families of Libardo

Duarte, Jose Gelvez Albarracin, and Jairo Jesus Charris Castro because they had received

serious, credible threats of death. I was very familiar with the facts of security for these

witnesses because I had personally been involved in setting it up.



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12. When the Court asked me whether the three witnesses I identified were the only

ones who had received security payments, I responded, Thats correct. This statement was not

accurate.

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14. Further, I was speaking in open court with counsel for Drummond present and a

court reporter making a record of my statements.

15. In the months that followed the hearing, I was swamped with work in other cases.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Terrence P. Collingsworth

Executed on this 5th day of March, 2015.



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