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Gerard Donley
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nicole "Coco" Brown testified Wednesday that she never wanted her boyfriend, Michael Drepaul, to accept money in exchange for not testifying against the man accused of stabbing him.
"Did you want any part of this?" asked prosecutor J. Patrick Youngs.
"Hell no," Brown said.
Then she got a call from her boyfriend's lawyer, Donna Uhlmann, in December 2011 to come to her office to pick up money, she said. "She told me not to ask any questions."
Over the next weeks, she would pickup $5,000 from Gerard Donley, lawyer for Drepaul's alleged attacker, Jamaal Dublin.
Asked what she thought the money was for, Brown said "not to go to court on Dub."
Donley is on trial for allegedly bribing Drepaul.