^*Forsythe told the court that he had received a telephone call at his Torrance, California, home from a stranger who asked him to come to the Desert Inn for a special job—“primarily a little guard duty.” Forsythe said he flew to Las Vegas the evening before Thanksgiving, played the slot machines in the airport, ate a grilled cheese sandwich, and drank a malt in the airport restaurant, and then took a cab to the Desert Inn. Shortly after midnight, Forsythe said, the stranger met him in the Desert Inn lobby and escorted him to the hotel parking lot, where he explained the nature of his assignment. Forsythe said the man told him: “We will be bringing someone out. I want you at this position…. All I want you to do is stand right here. I want you to keep anybody from interfering. We’re going to be bringing someone out from the building. At this time there will be five vehicles parked at this area here. There won’t be any more than that. When we bring the person out I want you to get in the fourth vehicle on the opposite side of the driver and ride with him until the destination.” Forsythe told the court that the man gave him “a white button about… I would say inch and a quarter to inch and a half in diameter, to wear on my left lapel and he told me that anybody else that was in this area were only to have the same buttons and anybody without them that I was to ask them in a nice way to leave the area.” Forsythe said the man told him to report for duty in the parking lot at 1:30 A.M. and then disappeared. Forsythe said he returned to the Desert Inn casino, played the nickle slot machines for a while, and then at 1:30 “I put the button on and walked to the parking lot area.” He said there were seven or eight other men there who also were wearing white buttons. Next, Forsythe told the court, he saw three men leave the building. “I seen two men, rather tall in stature, with one man in the center, and these two gentlemen were holding up the person in the center or walking him.” Forsythe said he heard the man call out for “Bob Maheu or Pat Hyland.” Forsythe said he heard another voice call out to him “get into a car,” and he jumped into the fourth car in the caravan. They drove for some distance, Forsythe said, and then returned to the Desert Inn, where someone took his white button. He said he returned home on Thanksgiving Day and ate a turkey dinner with his mother.