Other people may have had access but subject found to be in constructive possession
Facts Officers of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department conducted surveillance on Consimeon Gross’s residence for several months, during which time they observed numerous people going into the residence and then leaving shortly thereafter. Based on their suspicions, the officers obtained a search warrant for Gross’s residence. The warrant was executed as Gross was stopped and arrested […]
Subject made ambiguous request for counsel (Saddler has clarified this)
Facts Dudley Coleman and Jennifer Lenard were shot and killed in a wooded area along Highway 9 in Pontotoc County in 2003. Testimony at trial revealed that Coleman and John Thomas Scott were involved in the sale of methamphetamine. Scott owed Coleman about $4,500 as a result of these dealings. The night before the murders, […]
Subject has to be interrogated for Miranda to apply
Facts In 2003, Officer Tyrone Keller was called to a domestic disturbance at the home of Rika Carmichael, which she shared with Kenneth Wilson, his live- in girlfriend Lisa Williams and her two children – Michael D’Anthony Williams and a younger son. Wilson and Lisa had an argument which resulted in Wilson pushing Lisa into […]
Subject had no expectation of privacy in hotel room
Facts In 2004, Cozell Lyons entered the Merchant and Farmers Bank in Philadelphia sporting a pair of purple sunglasses. Lyons then displayed a blue checkbook cover containing a note which instructed teller Felicia Cook to remain quiet because Lyons had a gun in his pocket. Lyons then handed Cook a clear plastic bag, into which Cook immediately […]
After invoking counsel, subject’s request to speak to police about procedural matters did not reinitiate the conversation
Facts In 2004, a newspaper delivery woman reported a house on fire on South Huntington Street in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Kosciusko Police Officer Carl Black and Kosciusko Firefighter Mark Hill were some of the first responders to arrive at the house. Black testified smoke was originating from the rear of the house, and that he noticed […]
Subject gives two different stories on gun
Facts In 2003, Patrolman Charles White of the Cleveland Police Department responded to a dispatch call to investigate a disturbance at 928 Church Street, the home of Anthony Short‘s girlfriend, Patricia Jones. Jones had called the police saying that Short had left her house and threatened to return with a gun. As White proceeded north […]