Opinion ID: 2524439
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: canady's testimony

Text: Angela Canady, Manning's mother, also became involved in this case. Like the other witnesses upon which this case is based, Canady is a drug and alcohol abuser who often lives on the streets. At the time of the robbery and shooting, Canady and her son were arguing constantly and because she was smoking wet (which is some substance dipped in morphine) and other drugs, she was paralyzed much of the time. Canady called the police soon after the robbery and shooting. She told them that the shooter was Manning. The police took a formal statement from her in which she stated that Manning returned to his house on the day of the shooting in an older model cream or brown van carrying a red crate with a number of items contained within, including cash, jewelry, liquor, and a silver handgun in a Crown Royal bag. Canady said Manning dumped the items on the floor and that she noticed some papers and car titles with the name Leroy Barnett on them. Canady also claimed to overhear Manning tell a few people that he hit a liquor store on 7th street and that he had to kill the woman because he thought she was going for the alarm. She claimed that Manning or someone later took some of the papers and tried to burn them in a Chinese wok. Based upon Canady's statements, the police received and executed a search warrant of the house. Inside they found various items that were identified as coming from Bartlett's liquor store and that some of the papers had been partially burned. At trial, Canady was a recalcitrant witness. She repeatedly stated that she did not remember, or did not know, most of the substance of her formal police statement or most of what occurred on the day of the shooting. She testified that she was afraid of Manning at the time; that they had been arguing and fighting constantly; and that she called the police because she believed somebody was trying to kill her son. The State was permitted to treat Canady as a hostile witness and cross-examine her using her pretrial statement, over defense counsel's objection. The statement was also introduced through a police detective's testimony and as an exhibit.