"Yeah, he stabbed me in the chest and arm and I tried to get out"

Cid Miller is the City Cab driver who Jason Warren stabbed in 2001. Warren was a juvenile at the time and he was convicted for the crime.

Miller testified this morning that Warren stabbed twice in the chest, twice in the back, once in the shoulder before he managed to jump out of the moving cab.

There was no warning, no argument, just a surprise attack.

Attitude seemed to be the theme for witnesses this morning. Miller snapped and was obnoxious to Mr. Paul Sequeira, who kept his cool.

Miller's mother and aunt were in court to support him.

 Miller is currently living in Seattle, Washington. His one and only response that was respectful was when Mr. Sequeira asked him where he was living.

Miller: "I was living here, Sir."

When Mr. Sequeira asked him what he did at City Cab, that's when the attitude kicked in.

Miller: "uh, driver."

Mr. Sequeira: "What shift did you work?"

Miller: "Graveyard."

Asked to state his hours, Miller responded, "Graveyard's pretty basic. 6 to 2. "

Asked whether part of his duties were collecting cash for cab fare, Miller responded with, "Yeah that's what cab drivers do."

Mr. Sequeira calmly explained to Miller when he would say stuff like this he was asking questions for the record and for the jury.

Miller: "Feels like an interrogation."

Mr. Sequeira: "No, just questions."

Miller said he picked up a "fare" in Eureka, a male who got in the cab "in the right back side door."
Miller responded to a question by Mr. Sequeira that it was dark and he did not see if the person was carrying anything.

Mr. Sequeira asked how the person was dressed.

Miller: "Like you."

Mr. Sequeira: "In a suit?"

Miller shot back, "Dressed in regular clothes. Pants and a sweatshit."

"He threw $40 over the seat and said Is this going to take me where I want to go," said Miller. When told that the male wanted to go to McKinleyville, Miller said he said yes.

Mr. Sequeira: "Did you go somewhere else before McKinleyville?"

Miller: "No. Once we got to McKinleyville, he was lost. Didn't know where he wanted to go, so I kept driving around in circles."

Mr. Sequeira: "Did you take him to Fields Landing?"

Miller: "I picked him up at the Best Western in Eureka then to Fields Landing. He could not find the person there so we went to McKinleyville, by the hospital."

Mr. Sequeira: "Once you got to Silkwood Avenue, what happened?"

Miller: "Where I had to jump out?"

Mr. Sequeira: "After you drove around at some point, did the fare do something to you?"

Miller: "Yeah, he stabbed me in the chest and arm and I tried to get out."

Miller said he didn't see a knife but he "felt it." Miller tried to get his seatbelt off, he was driving at 25 mph, and tired to get out of the cab. Before he could get out, he said the male "stabbed me twice in the back; once in the shoulder."

Miller then jumped out of the cab, the male climbed over into the front seat.

Having been stabbed five times, Miller said, "I couldn't see much at that time. I went to the nearest home I could find. They wouldn't let me in because I was bleeding." Next thing Miller remembers is waking up in the hospital. He could not remember how long he was in the hospital.

Asked if there was any argument, conversation before the stabbing, Miller said, "No argument, didn't even talk to the guy."

Mr. Sequeira: "Were you taken by surprise by the stabbing?"

Miller: "Is that a real question? Yeah."

Mr. Sequeira: "While you were being stabbed, did the man say anything to you?"

Miller: "No."

Humboldt County District Attorney's Chief Investigator Wayne Cox testified next. In 2012, he was working as an investigator for the DA's office. He was the one who got the search warrant for Dorothy Ulrich's home. He was there when Eureka Police Department picked up the abandoned KIA.

In April 2001, Mr. Cox worked for EPD. There was a blue and white Ford Taurus cab reported to be associated with "an assault the previous night" that was found abandoned on P Street between 6th and 7th Streets in Eureka. The cab was on the street, there was stuff in the alley.

Due to the report, Humboldt Towing took the cab directly to the DOJ forensics lab in Eureka for processing.

There was damage to the passenger side rear view mirror which was broken.