Opinion ID: 1126715
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: davis's arrest

Text: An affidavit was signed and a warrant was prepared for Davis's arrest to be presented to a district judge for signature. Before the warrant was signed, Davis, with his cousin, Marlin Rogers, as his passenger, drove his distinctive car into the driveway of the home of their grandmother where police, who had been following them, immediately converged on them. When Davis recognized he was being followed, he took his pistol out of the glove compartment of his car, giving it to his cousin, telling him to hide it and saying, I think I'm gone. Both Rogers and Davis exited the car in their grandmother's driveway on police orders. Both were immediately frisked and patted down. Rogers had attempted to hide the pistol in his underwear and had placed a box of bullets for the pistol in his pants. During the pat down the pistol fell to the ground and the box of bullets was discovered. Davis was advised of his Miranda rights several times and thereafter signed a printed waiver of those rights at the police station. Being questioned about the period of time encompassing both murders (Sanchez on June 29 and Moore on June 30) and about who had possessed his pistol and distinctive car, Davis told police that at all times he possessed or effectively had custody and control of the pistol and the car and had not loaned either to anyone. Davis admitted robbing and shooting Calvin Moore, but denied robbing and shooting Sanchez and Hall. Davis knew of the telecasts of the murder-robbery of Moore before he was arrested. The jury rejected Davis's intoxication defense in each murder and his efforts to impeach the State's witnesses. The jury, in separate verdicts, found each murder was committed during the commission of an armed robbery. In the Sanchez murder, the jury found, as an additional aggravating circumstance, that the murder was committed in an especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner, obviously because Sanchez was shot three times, once between the eyes at close range, and twice in the abdomen, according to the coroner. The trial court's instruction included this aggravating circumstance, but the state did not argue or urge that the jury should or could find it.