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Chemirmir admitted to visiting the property in the past and selling a ring online belonging to Bartel, but denied ever talking to or entering a resident's area. Wednesday morning began with attorneys arguing over if Chemirmir should wear a face mask in court. Prosecutor Glen Fitzmartin argued his witnesses might not be able to identify Chemirmir.

He offered to provide a clear face shield. Chemirmir's attorneys objected to the clear face shield as well as requests by prosecutors that he briefly remove his mask so that his face can be seen while witnesses are on the stand.

Chemirmir was arrested in March after year-old Mary Annis Bartel survived an attack at her apartment in an independent living community for seniors in Plano.

She died in When police tracked Chemirmir to his nearby apartment the next day, he was holding jewelry and cash. Documents in a large red jewelry box police say he had just thrown away led them to a Dallas home, where Harris was dead in her bedroom, lipstick smeared on her pillow. Rinehart testified on Tuesday said that the jewelry box found in the trash belonged to his mother-in-law, as did numerous pieces of jewelry that officers found as they arrested Chemirmir. He said she grew up in Saigon, which is now Ho Chi Minh City, and eventually owned a restaurant and bar there.

The restaurant was located across the street from an oil company where the man who became her second husband, William Harris, worked. Rinehart said that after leaving Vietnam, the couple lived in Tanzania before William Harris retired and they moved to Dallas.

William Harris died in Rinehart said his wife, Loan Rinehart, died of cancer in Over the following years, the number of people Chemirmir was accused of killing grew.

Prosecutor Glen Fitzmartin said jurors would also be hearing about the killing of year-old Mary Brooks, who was found dead in her Richardson home in January None of the other eye witnesses could identify him from the photo array.

Detective Hooker interviewed the alibi witnesses the week of the crime and interviewed the surviving victim at the hospital. He also interviewed a man who had been threatened with a shotgun by the Texaco victims four days before the shooting occurred. He concluded his investigation within a week of the crime. The occupants of a white Cadillac had tried to block the Texaco victims in a parking spot at the mall at pm on Sunday, May 15, , and at least one of the people in the white Cadillac had a pistol.

Trace evidence analyst Vicki Hall of the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science testified that she found a very low levels of antimony and barium on Mr.

Richard Miles was a smoker and in fact, had stopped at a for cigarettes and had smoked a cigarette shortly before Mr. Clark dropped him off. It is important to point out that the two victims were shot multiple times.

According to the autopsy report, the deceased victim had four entry wounds. The surviving victim was shot seven times. In , through a public records request, Centurion acquired two reports from the Dallas Police Department relating to Richard Miles case containing exculpatory information.

These reports had never been revealed before. The caller told the police the drug dealer confessed to her that he shot two black males at a Texaco station a year before and that the police had arrested the wrong man. The drug dealer told her that he had used a 9-millimeter gun. No one besides the police and the killer knew that a 9-millimeter gun had been the weapon used in this shooting. The other recorded an incident between the victims and a William Garland.

Garland reported the victims, Williams and Johnson verbally abused him at his place of work and threatened him with a sawed-off shotgun five days before the victims were shot at the Texaco station. A few days later, Williams apologized for the incident when he ran into Williams and his brother Limerick Williams.

Richard Miles was freed on October 12, Miles as the shooter at the urging of the trial prosecutor. Christina received her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University — Newark and her law degree from Washington University in St. Most recently, Christina worked at The Legal Aid Society in the Parole Revocation Defense Unit during which time she spent a significant amount of time on Rikers Island working with clients with special needs , and then in the Criminal Defense Practice.

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