 |
 |
to fill out a simple form to connect to DUI Lawyers in your area.
|
|
|
|
|
State v. Wilson8/2/2001
ith the Defendant, along with Agent McCaulie of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Lieutenant Necessary asked the Defendant about the party that he, Alford and Christein had engaged in during the previous night. The Defendant told Necessary and McCaulie that "someone by the name of Susan had taken them to that particular party and was supposed to come back within an hour to pick him up and subsequent to that he left with the victim and his girlfriend." The Defendant said that "they drove back to town by way of East High School and to the BP station and was later dropped off at a trailer ---- Broad Street Trailer Park in Bristol, Tennessee." Lieutenant Necessary asked the Defendant if he had been at Steele's Creek Park, and the Defendant denied being at the park. Defendant insisted that the victim's girlfriend, Ms. Bolling, had dropped he, Alford and Christein at the trailer park and that he immediately went to bed.
Lieutenant Necessary testified that, during his interview with the Defendant, he observed scratch marks on Defendant's left hand. The Defendant told Necessary that he sustained the injuries at his job with Peerless Woodworking. Necessary also questioned the Defendant about the clothing he was wearing the night before. The Defendant responded that he still had on the clothes from the night before and that he had worn the same clothes to work. At this point, Necessary left the interview with the Defendant and Detective Smeltzer entered the room. Necessary went to the trailer park where the Defendant had been staying with his girlfriend, Angie Finley. He asked Ms. Finley about the clothes the Defendant had worn the night before, and she responded that the clothes were lying at the foot of their bed. Ms. Finley further stated that she had not had time to wash the Defendant's clothes. Lieutenant Necessary went into the bedroom to examine the clothes. He found a tie-dyed shirt and some jeans lying at the foot of the bed. Necessary testified that there "appeared to be several different spots upon the pants and some upon the shirt and at that time it was suspected of being blood." He collected the shirt, jeans and socks and placed them into evidence at the Bristol Police Department.
On cross-examination, Lieutenant Necessary testified that he never asked the Defendant if he had killed anyone. He stated that the Defendant had shown no signs of flight or any attempt to escape.
Detective Jerry Smeltzer of the Bristol Police Department testified that Lieutenant Necessary instructed him to respond to the crime scene at Steele's Creek Park where the victim was killed. Upon arriving, Detective Smeltzer interviewed witnesses that led him to locate Brandon Alford. Smeltzer went to the home of Alford's parents, and with the help of Alford's father he located Alford in a trailer park in Sullivan County. He obtained an oral statement from Alford concerning the whereabouts of the Defendant. Alford informed Detective Smeltzer that the Defendant was working at Peerless Woodworking. Smeltzer testified that Christein was also at the trailer with Alford at that time.
Smeltzer stated that he and Lieutenant Terry Tester transported Alford and Christein to the Bristol detective office. Smeltzer testified that because Alford had been involved in a previous case of his, he spoke with Alford and questioned him about the events leading up to the victim's death. He further stated that, when he informed Alford of the victim's death, Alford "almost instantly became physically ill and had to go to the bathroom to throw up." Smeltzer said he never took Alford's statement, instead agent Frank McCauley of the Tennessee Bureau Investigation ("TBI") took the statement. Detective Smeltzer further
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tennessee DUI Attorneys
DUI Lawyers
|
| |
to fill out a simple form to connect to DUI Lawyers in your area.
|
|