Opinion ID: 844200
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Terry Garrison, Tina Kidwell, and Cathy D.

Text: Danny Davis, a defense investigator, testified concerning his interviews with Terry Garrison, Tina Kidwell, and Cathy D., in St. Louis. According to Davis, Garrison told him that she thought defendant was a good father to the children and did not mention anything about defendant molesting her daughter, Angela C. Garrison said that she and Jones regularly drank alcohol and smoked marijuana, that the majority of their physical confrontations occurred while they were under the influence, and that defendant regularly beat her. 34 Tina Kidwell told Davis she met defendant in 1981 and that they had been ―boyfriend and girlfriend on and off‖ for two years, living together for three months during that time. Kidwell said defendant was ―a very good father‖ and that he never acted inappropriately with her child or his daughter. The longer she and defendant were together, however, the more problems they had. Defendant liked to be in control of all aspects of their relationship. When defendant was sober, he was a very nice person, but when he drank alcohol, he changed. He sometimes would hit Kidwell, usually when he was drunk. Kidwell expressed surprise at the charges defendant faced in this case. Cathy D. told Davis that she and defendant had been ―drinking buddies‖ in 1982. She said defendant was a ―very nice guy‖ when he was sober, but when he drank alcohol, which he did frequently, or used drugs, he was short-tempered and could be violent. She characterized the 1983 rape that occurred in defendant‘s residence as one in which defendant merely became ―sexually aggressive‖ after her boyfriend left. Davis acknowledged on cross-examination that ―a woman could be uncomfortable discussing rape with a man she did not know.‖