One and done
David Reed Wilson bought crack cocaine from Raimond Akira Johnson in High Point on the night of Feb. 24, 2007.
He returned early the next morning with an AR-15 assault rifle and shot Johnson four times at close range.
Arrested almost immediately, Wilson told High Point Police Officer P.J. Perryman "he hated drug dealers and that he was out to rid the world of drug dealers."
Mission not accomplished. It was one and done for Wilson's ambition.
He was convicted of first-degree murder in Guilford County Superior Court in October 2007 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Today, the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld his conviction and sentencing, denying the defendant's assertions that Judge Catherine Eagles improperly excluded evidence and made other errors.
At trial, Wilson tried to present a defense that he was threatened by Johnson. This was challenged by prosecution witness Raymond Morgan, who testified that Johnson was unarmed. Morgan was Johnson's crack house "doorman."
Wilson questioned Morgan's truthfulness, citing a recorded statement given to police by Tecolia Daughtridge that Morgan told her Johnson did have a gun, although he never fired it.
Eagles, the trial judge, did not allow the recording of Daughtridge's statement introduced as defense evidence. Why not? Because, in testimony during the trial itself, Daughtridge said she didn't remember making the statement to police. She has epileptic seizures and had been put "in a coma," she said. Also:
"I didn't say I made anything up and you're not going to get me to say I made nothing up. My mental state and my physical health as far as my head, I'm liable to say anything. So, I'm not really ... me sitting up here, anything I say is not going to be credible because really my mental state, I'm liable to say anything ... Truthfully, I'm a patient at Mental Health. I'm liable to say anything."
The same might be said for Wilson, who just wasn't thinking when he told police that "shooting dope dealers" was one of his hobbies.
Now he's got a lifetime to explore new hobbies.
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It is mind blowing to me, how someone can say one thing and mean another. What is wrong? Why can we as Americans sleep @ night. We have a Major problem with Todays world. We have to expose the truth. Let me explain. Now days we have things happen to people. People are getting involved in many different complexed situations. And people are not telling the truth. Mankinds sins are bearing down on people. A systematic way has been formed and more prisons and deaths are forming. You see the truth but no one is speaking about the truth because you will either die or you will be labeled. So you have One and Done Victims of Mankinds Sins needing to be exposed......
Posted on May 19, 2009 11:57 AM
It is mind blowing to me, how someone can say one thing and mean another. What is wrong? Why can we as Americans sleep @ night. We have a Major problem with Todays world. We have to expose the truth. Let me explain. Now days we have things happen to people. People are getting involved in many different complexed situations. And people are not telling the truth. Mankinds sins are bearing down on people. A systematic way has been formed and more prisons and deaths are forming. You see the truth but no one is speaking about the truth because you will either die or you will be labeled. So you have One and Done Victims of Mankinds Sins needing to be exposed......
Posted on May 19, 2009 11:59 AM
I couldn't have said it any better ... both times.
Posted on May 19, 2009 12:28 PM
This is unrelated to the gentleman buying crack and the later AK-47 deadly shooting but is close enough to the extreme difficulty of placating lifers with their lawsuits.
Yes!Weekly News of the Weird this week:
"Convicted Oklahoma city bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, now serving a life sentence in the Florence Colo. 'Supermax Prison', has filed a 39-page federal lawsuit in March alleging unconstitutional'cruel and unusual punishment' because the refined-food, low-fiber meals give him 'chronic constipation ' and bleeding hemorroids. He demanded fresh raw vegetables and other high fiber foods, necessary to 'keep one's body{i.e. God's holy temple}in good health'. Nichol's was joined in the lawsuit by fellow supermax resident Eric Rudolph (the convicted abortion-clinic and Atlanta Olympics bomber), who claimed 'gas and stomach cramps' and observed that 'our bodies' are' sacred and should be treated as such.' ''
???wasn't Eric arrested after eating out of a dumpster in NC and ate acorns for five years? Send more bananas to Supermax for Terry and Eric and a tube of Preparation H quickly.
Posted on May 19, 2009 2:16 PM
More torture of detainees ...
Posted on May 19, 2009 4:32 PM