SpiralStairs wrote:
This is what I'm taking away from all this, the key seems to be the fact that the witness says to an investigator that he's tried to avoid contact with the defendant. However, he also says he's partied with the defendant a couple times during the course of the past year. So he's not really trying to avoid contact with the guy if he's seeking him out and going to parties at his apartment. At the very least he's contradicting himself about his relationship with the defendant. Maybe even opening the door a crack to bias?
This witness sounds typical. The State will impeach the living Hell out of him. Is the witness a choir boy, or does he have a rap sheet from here to Carbondale? The State destroys alibi witnesses with questions like what else did you do the day of the incident? The witness, no matter how well prepared, is a street rat who has no real answer.
No convictions, just a petty arrest record for drinking and street dice.
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