Opinion ID: 2364198
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Tyrone Williams

Text: Tyrone Williams testified that sometime between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. on April 23, 1989, his brother, Habeeb, came to his house and informed him that someone wanted to speak with him. Williams walked outside and found Franklin King, who asked Williams if he wanted to buy a gun. At the side of the house, King displayed to him a blue steel, six-inch barrel.44 Magnum handgun with a wooden handle. Williams asked King if he had any bodies on the gun at the time, to which he replied, yes. According to Williams, King then stated that he shot somebody that night and I said that night and that's when he opened upit was a revolverhe opened up the revolver part of the gun and showed me one spent shell in the gun. And I told him no I don't want it. Williams, who had one prior conviction for larceny and one for drug distribution, testified that he was not a friend of Anthony Ways. The PCR judge found Tyrone Williams to be credible, noting that Williams did not personally know Ways and allegedly he has no axe to grind. He concluded, however, that the testimony was merely cumulative because Franklin Shaw had already identified King as the shooter at trial. The judge also concluded that testimony from Williams would be admissible at trial only to rehabilitate Shaw's credibility. Finally, the court held that there was no likelihood or probability that Williams's testimony would change the jury's verdict if a new trial were granted.