Easy work for police and courts
Darnell Lamar Dawkins was not good at hiding things, or himself.
On the morning of Sept. 19, 2006, Rahsaan Greenridge left his home in Virginia on a business trip -- driving to North Carolina to pick up marijuana, which he planned to sell back in Virginia.
By that afternoon, however, he was lying dead in the middle of McConnell Road in Greensboro, his body "riddled with bullets."
Very early the next morning, Dawkins tried to hide from Greensboro police officers and Guilford County sheriff's deputies by crawling under a deflated children's swimming pool. He'd just wrecked Greenridge's car during a chase and had tried to get away on foot.
When they found Dawkins, officers also discovered a gun, lots of money and some marijuana. Oh, yes, and Greenridge's blood all over everything.
On March 27 of last year, Dawkins was convicted in Guilford County Superior Court of first-dgree murder and other charges. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole by Judge John O. Craig III.
Dawkins appealed, and his case was heard by the N.C. Court of Appeals on March 26.
Apparently, this wasn't a tough case because today, in near-record time, a three-judge panel unanimously affirmed Dawkins' conviction.
Dawkins might have had a better chance to escape justice if he'd found a hiding place for Greenridge's body, not driven around in Greenridge's car, stashed other evidence of his crimes, cleaned up the blood and stayed out of sight himself for a while.
But he didn't.
Thank goodness for criminals who make the work of the police and courts easy.
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