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Aperture Contract with Norfolk County DA

Amendment discussed as permitting up to $325,000 for Aperture. Welcher qualified his view as a non-attorney and said he did not know what the firm had already been paid.

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Used in Alessi's cross-examination to question Welcher about Aperture's financial arrangement with the Commonwealth and challenge his impartiality. Alessi presented the $44,510 already-paid figure, which Welcher said he did not know; the exchange concerned an authorized ceiling, not compensation contingent on the case outcome.

Contract amendment discussed during cross-examination as authorizing up to $325,000 in payments to Aperture Forensics. Welcher said he believed that was correct but qualified his understanding as a non-attorney's legal interpretation; when Alessi asked about $44,510 already paid, Welcher repeatedly said he was not aware of what Aperture had been paid.

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