Opinion ID: 2314684
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Mary Bedney's Testimony

Text: At the suppression hearing, Mary Bedney testified that on the afternoon of June 27, 1978, she went to 12th and U Streets, where she saw appellant Greene and the deceased, John Fulton, in a blue car which Fulton often drove. Bedney also saw the three appellants together near 12th and U later in the day. At about 11 P.M., Bedney accompanied Fulton to his apartment. Bedney often bought drugs from Fulton, both for her own use and for resale on the street; she bought Dilaudid from him that evening. [2] Bedney was in the bathroom preparing to inject herself with Dilaudid when she heard a knock on the door. She untied her arm, went to the door, looked through the peephole, and recognized Greene. Calling to Fulton that Ricky Greene was at the door, she returned to the bathroom. As she was retying her arm, she looked up and saw Greene pointing a pistol at her. Through the open bathroom door, she saw Reggie and Poo-Poo (the names by which she knew Parks and Grinnage) in the bedroom, holding guns on Fulton. She heard them demand to know where money and drugs were hidden. Fulton told them, and appellants took money from underneath the mattress and drugs from the bathroom. They removed Bedney's clothing and bound her hands with tape. Bedney added, however, that she was not blindfolded. [3] She lay on the floor, and when she turned to look at Fulton she saw appellants standing over him. She was ordered to turn back around, and she did. [4] Bedney heard Fulton groaning, then heard Greene say [M]an, she know me and felt herself being stabbed in the neck. Bedney did not lose consciousness. When she heard the apartment door slam, she stood up and wrapped herself as well as she could in the bedspread. As she made her way toward the door, Bedney saw a blonde-haired, brown-skinned woman lying in the hallway of Fulton's apartment. Bedney stepped over her and left the apartment to seek help. (When the police arrived a few minutes later, no woman was lying in the hallway.) Bedney knocked on the door of a nearby apartment, but the residents, frightened by the sight of the knife embedded in her throat, would not let her in. (They did, however, call the police.) Bedney walked out into the street. A cabdriver picked her up and took her to the hospital, where she underwent surgery to remove the knife from her throat. [5] Soon after Bedney awoke on the morning of June 28, 1978, Metropolitan Police Detectives James Slawson and Francis McCloskey visited her in the hospital. They showed her a photo array, and she picked out a photo of Greene. [6] (The police had received independent information which led them to include Greene's photo in the array.) On July 6, the detectives showed Bedney another photo array in which she identified Grinnage. She selected a photo of Parks from still another array on July 11. Bedney attended a lineup on October 31, 1978. She identified Greene and Grinnage but not Parks. [7] Immediately after the lineup, police took Bedney upstairs to the Homicide Office and showed her a photo array. She picked out Parks' photo. On a later occasion, police showed Bedney a photo of the October 31 lineup; she identified Parks, as well as Greene and Grinnage. She explained to police that she had been unsure about Parks at the lineup because he had trimmed his beard since she had last seen him. [8] Finally, Bedney made in-court identifications of all three appellants at the suppression hearing. [9]