Circumstantial evidence
Facts On October 3, 1999, at about 4:00 a.m., Jeffrey Stewart and Starr Parker were parked in a field off White Street east of United States Highway 61 in Cleveland, Mississippi. Two men pulled in and parked next to them. Stewart and Parker heard the men arguing. Stewart heard a man say, “Deano, you know […]
Inventory search of car not proper here
Facts On the date of Joseph Triplett‘s arrest, he was residing with his mother. On this same day, Triplett used an automobile which belonged to Sammie White, a known drug dealer, to pick up Kay Barnes and her son. Triplett drove Barnes and her son to Barnes’s apartment. Due to the pending execution of a […]
Protective sweep while serving arrest warrant reveals incriminating evidence
Facts Richard Gookin was the owner of Dick’s Barber and Style located at the Appleridge Shopping Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Gookin testified that a young man entered his barber shop with a firearm. It was later asserted by police officers that this young man was Stanley “Joshua” McNeil. Gookin explained that at the time […]
Refusal to stop for police spoke volumes to the court as to constructive possession of drugs
Facts In 1998, Officer Lisa Dawe, a policeman with the New Albany Police Department, while on routine patrol, noticed a van with excessively loud music emanating from it. Dawe activated the blue lights in the patrol car and followed the van in an attempt to stop the driver and to ask that the volume be […]
Subject did not own home but he was found to live there for constructive possession purposes
Facts In 1999, a search warrant was issued to the Scott County Sheriff’s Office enabling them to search a mobile home in the Kalem Trailer Park in Kalem, Mississippi for guns allegedly possessed by Jerry Lewis Evans, a prior convicted felon. The officers searched the mobile home and recovered five guns. The mobile home was […]
Exigent circumstances allowed officer to take videotape of home
Facts In 1997, Edward Baker‘s children awoke in the middle of the night to the sounds of Baker violently assaulting their mother, Cinester Baker. According to the eldest child, LaTonya (12 years old), Cinester told her to run from Baker, but Baker got to the door before LaTonya could get out of the apartment. Cinester […]