The jury in the trial of former Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels heard more testimony Wednesday detailing his relationship with his now-former mistress through explicit text messages that were read aloud in court.
Daniels is accused of lying to investigators and destroying evidence to cover up the long-term affair he had with Cierra Smith, who was a corrections officer at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office while he was director of the Duval County jail -- her superior.
Then a recording of Daniels’ interview with FDLE was played for the jury. Daniels describes the incident where Smith was following him that led to him accusing his ex-mistress of stalking.“A million things are going through my head. And I’m like how is this ending? I start thinking Clay County sheriff has to kill a young female in her vehicle . It’s not a good look for myself or the county. Clay County sheriff is killed by a . It’s not a good look either,” he can be heard saying.
Much of the morning testimony centered around an order Daniels gave to Dominic Antoniello, an IT worker within the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, to wipe an old cellphone he had. The IT worker testified he suspected it was to remove information concerning his affair.Antoniello: She said the meeting was planned in advance, but Daniels says she was stalking him because he had ended their six-year relationship a week earlier.“So at that time I noticed she was going to block me in, I did make contact with Darryl, and I saw him hold up his radio in the window. and I got scared,” Smith said on the stand. “I didn’t know what was going on.”
When he took the stand on Tuesday, Williams was asked about a conversation he had with Daniels about Smith.“So he initially said, ‘Hey, that girl that works for you has been following me around. She’s out here now.’ So, I didn’t know who he was referring to at the time.
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