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Payne said that his friendship with Allison was rocky at times.
He said Allison would “get strong in his speech towards me once in a while . . . and beat me up one night when I was drunk.” He also alleged that Allison “once put a shotgun up to me.”
In opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Apperson told the jury that “it was always party time with his lines of cocaine” at Allison’s homes in Ada (near Marshall) and Rappahannock.
He charged that Allison provided cocaine to his then-underage daughter Angela “on a regular basis.”
Defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro said the government was basing its case, in part, “on the word of an acknowledged liar.”
Allison, said Shapiro, “does not deny” that he has ever seen, used bought “or even distributed” cocaine.
He said Allison was not a “godfather” figure in the drug ring, but that “many people have been involved in cocaine in this neck of the woods for many years.”
He said those who have already pleaded guilty and were going to testify “aren’t the lieutenants of a drug family,” and that some of the witnesses “aren’t credible,” and that a number of them “have significant drug problems.”
First to testify were Marshall
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