Opinion ID: 77991
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Testifying Co-Defendants and Purchasers of Narcotics (Addicts)

Text: Four Co-Defendants who pled guilty before trial were trial witnesses for the government. Jones remembered seeing drugs sold from the Clay Street home when she was about five years old, and started selling drugs herself at the age of sixteen. If someone was on the porch at the Clay Street home, they usually had drugs to sell. She knew her uncle Calvin was involved in selling drugs from the Boykin Towers apartment. Leonard Westry, Rose's son and Lucious' grandson, testified that Rose was involved in selling drugs, and his uncle, Calvin, who lived at the Clay Street home from time to time, also sold drugs occasionally. Leonard also saw Woodyard selling pills (lortabs, oxycontin, morphine) to people on various occasions near the Clay Street home. Leonard saw Woodyard get the pills from Uncle Calvin. Carter, Leonard's uncle-in-law, also sold pills (lortabs and morphine) at the Clay Street home. Hogue and Zuniga were married. Zuniga is Lucious' great-grandson. Hogue entered a written plea of guilty after the trial started. Hogue observed a variety of drug activities at the Clay Street home, including transactions by Zuniga. She observed Calvin Westry and Woodyard selling drugs out of the Clay Street home. Woodyard would come to her begging for pills. She saw Westry sell pills from Boykin Towers. She saw Carter selling drugs. In 2003 Hogue started supplying pills to people. Beckham, Lucious' nephew, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute drugs. He was involved in drug distribution from the Clay Street home beginning in 2001. He had seen Carter selling drugs at the Clay Street home since 2003. According to Beckham, Woodyard was involved in selling drugs there, but not very often. Beckham knew Westry was involved in drug distribution at the Clay Street home, and saw Chill (Hinton) shooting pills at the Clay Street home. In addition to the testifying Co-Defendants, several purchasers of the narcotics supplied by the extended Westry family testified at trial. Their testimony concerns drug purchases as early as 1992 at the Clay Street home. Stephanie Healy, who after being arrested worked undercover for the police, testified that when there were no drugs at the Clay Street home, somebody would drive or ride with her to the house at 459 Maple Street. She bought morphine from Carter probably 25, 30 times. Gary Brown bought pills from the Clay Street home as often as three times a day, and purchased oxycontin or morphine from Carter approximately 20 times from 2001 to 2002. Stephen Allen bought drugs from Westry once or twice, and obtained pills from Carter 15-20 times. He also bought drugs at 459 Maple Street.