Opinion ID: 2188660
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Heading: The remaining events of the evening.

Text: That night, Theresa Daniels, a co-worker of Gretchen Shaw, drove Gretchen home from work. Daniels testified that at about 10:00 p.m., after they had entered the house, Lawrence, [defendant], and Gretchen started talking in the kitchen and then went into the bedroom. (Neither the defense counsel nor the prosecutor questioned Daniels on her reference to the victim. Thus, we assume that Lawrence is an error in the transcript or refers to someone other than Talley.) Gretchen testified that defendant had told her he was okay but that he almost had one. She did not notice any marks or scratches on defendant. As Daniels was getting ready to leave, defendant asked her if she could drop him off at the Maple Lake Inn. Once at the Inn, Daniels decided to stay for a few minutes. Defendant borrowed her car. Marie Simmons testified that defendant had arrived at her house sometime between 10:00 and 10:30 that evening, driving a little brown car, hatchback, presumably Daniels' tan 1981 Toyota Corolla. Simmons described defendant as having a cut on his right arm that was oozing with blood. Another person who was at Simmons's house noticed that defendant had a bruise right underneath his eye. According to Simmons, defendant gave her a sixteenth of cocaine that he had obtained in Camden. She described the cocaine as being in a clear ziploc bag, the same sort used by Lawrence Talley. Defendant then allegedly injected himself with some of the cocaine while Simmons smoked some of it. Other people came in and out of the house. Defendant left, but later returned and gave Simmons another sixteenth and a couple of twenties. Simmons testified that defendant had stayed at her house until 3:30 a.m., although members of his family claim that he was home much earlier than that.