Opinion ID: 2364198
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Donna Carter

Text: Donna Carter testified that she had falsely incriminated Ways in her initial taped statement to the police because she was high and afraid that she would be charged with drug possession, prostitution, and other offenses. Carter claimed that before she gave her taped statement, she was told what to say by the assistant prosecutor. She stated that at the time she only was interested in using drugs and didn't want to get locked up for nothing and nobody. She also claimed that police officers planted eight bags of cocaine on her before she spoke with the assistant prosecutor, and then, presumably because of her cooperation, let her keep the drugs. The PCR court rejected Carter's testimony as incredible, expressing severe reservations about [her] candor based on her demeanor and selective recall. The court also noted Carter's ten-year delay in coming forward with the purported truth and her first-time-ever allegation that the police planted drugs on her.