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State v. Wilson8/2/2001
testified that, at some point, she, Detective Charlie Thomas, Detective Matt Austin and Jared Christein went to a creek bed located at the end of Broad Street Trailer Park. McCaulie stated that they found a wallet partially covered by the dirt and gravel. The wallet contained some cards, but no money was found in the wallet. A driver's license, later identified as that of the victim, was found separate from the wallet submerged in the creek bank and water. McCaulie testified that she retrieved the wallet and its contents and had it placed into custody. She also testified that, when she met the Defendant at the police station, she observed "some scratches on the upper portions of his hands," which she photographed.
The State recalled Detective Thomas, who testified that he examined the Toyota Celica driven by the victim and Ms. Bolling, and found a six pack of bottled Busch beer, a large stick, air freshener, a mountain dew bottle, Natural Ice bottle caps and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.
Thomas stated that he compared the beer bottles from the car with two beer bottles found Steele Creek's Park, and determined that they were the same brand and size. DetectiveThomas also testified that he received two tubes of the victim's blood from Dr. Gretel Harlan, who performed the autopsy on the victim. Thomas stated that he gave these tubes to Lieutenant Trigg McNew, the evidence custodian for the Bristol Police Department.
Lieutenant McNew testified that, as the evidence room custodian, his job was to assist the Criminal Investigation Division with the securing of evidence retrieved from a crime scene. McNew explained that he was also responsible for sending items of evidence, which need testing, to the laboratory for testing. He testified that, on April 6, 1999, he received two vials of the victim's blood from Detective Thomas. On July 2, 1999, McNew transported the tubes of blood to the TBI crime lab in Nashville, and received a TBI laboratory number for the tubes.
Michael Turbeville, a forensic scientist with the TBI crime laboratory in Nashville, testified that he examined a pair of pants and a shirt identified as belonging to the Defendant. He stated that he tested the shirt for the presence of blood and determined that there was human blood on the shirt. Turbeville also tested Defendant's knife for human blood and determined that there was blood on the knife. He then conducted a DNA comparison of the blood on the knife and the shirt with the vial of the victim's blood delivered to the lab by Lieutenant McNew. Agent Turbeville concluded that the blood on the shirt and the knife was that of the victim.
Dr. Gretel Harlan, the forensic pathologist at East Tennessee State University, testified that she was called to Steele's Creek to perform a preliminary examination on the victim's body. Later, Dr. Harlan conducted an autopsy of the victim's body and found that the victim suffered seven "actual stab type wounds, and there were several others that were just scrapes that looked like superficial little sharp edge wounds." Dr. Harlan opined that none of the wounds would have been immediately fatal, "unless they had gotten badly infected," except for a large V-shaped wound to the victim's left lower neck and back. She stated that this V-shaped or "double-thrusting" wound cut an artery, and "would have led to the victim's death within a matter of minutes." Dr. Harlan testified that only two of the stab wounds were more than an inch deep -- the stab to the right buttock and the left lower neck. She further testified that the stab wounds were consistent with the knife possessed by the Defendant. As for the victim's hands, Dr. Harlan testified that
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