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11:30 a.m.
Judge Stephen Scarlett allowed defense lawyer Newell Hamilton Jr. to make a supplmental opening statement three days after his first. Hamilton said police showed "a total indifference in the collection of evidence."
Hamilton said that Gail Pierce, the former manager of New Hope Mobile Park where the slayings occurred, had told police about a month after the slayings she had found what appeared to be a pair of bloody nunchucks made of pipe secured with a chain.
The testimony of Pierce, who was Gail Montgomery at the time, will be the only word because investigator Mike Owens didn't bother to check out her report, Hamilton said.
The jury will hear a tape of Priest's call to Owens in which she said lead sinkers fell from the pipes and asked if it were something police would be interested in.
"He said that sounds like something we would be interested in,'' Hamilton said.
The defense only heard about it last week after hearing that Priest had asked the prosecutors, "What about the bloody nunchucks?" Hamilton told the jury.
She made the same call about a framing hammer, he said.
Priest had been accused of lying, but a tape was later found that confirmed the telephone call she made to police.
Once he was questioned this week, Owens said he didn't remember the call, even though he verified it was his voice on the phone, nor did he remember sending any investigator to check out the item Priest found, Hamilton said.
Capt. Randy Austin, a detention officer at the Glynn County jail, said he and the jail administrator at the time turned over Heinze's clothing to Glynn County police investigator Mike Owens in response to a search warrant Owens had secured.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/georgi...al-opening-statement-three-days#ixzz2hzyevtsF
Judge Stephen Scarlett allowed defense lawyer Newell Hamilton Jr. to make a supplmental opening statement three days after his first. Hamilton said police showed "a total indifference in the collection of evidence."
Hamilton said that Gail Pierce, the former manager of New Hope Mobile Park where the slayings occurred, had told police about a month after the slayings she had found what appeared to be a pair of bloody nunchucks made of pipe secured with a chain.
The testimony of Pierce, who was Gail Montgomery at the time, will be the only word because investigator Mike Owens didn't bother to check out her report, Hamilton said.
The jury will hear a tape of Priest's call to Owens in which she said lead sinkers fell from the pipes and asked if it were something police would be interested in.
"He said that sounds like something we would be interested in,'' Hamilton said.
The defense only heard about it last week after hearing that Priest had asked the prosecutors, "What about the bloody nunchucks?" Hamilton told the jury.
She made the same call about a framing hammer, he said.
Priest had been accused of lying, but a tape was later found that confirmed the telephone call she made to police.
Once he was questioned this week, Owens said he didn't remember the call, even though he verified it was his voice on the phone, nor did he remember sending any investigator to check out the item Priest found, Hamilton said.
Capt. Randy Austin, a detention officer at the Glynn County jail, said he and the jail administrator at the time turned over Heinze's clothing to Glynn County police investigator Mike Owens in response to a search warrant Owens had secured.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/georgi...al-opening-statement-three-days#ixzz2hzyevtsF