Opinion ID: 2974239
Heading Depth: 6
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Bowen’s Witnesses

Text: Bowen put on several witnesses who testified in varying degrees of certainty that he lived with his mother at 504 Clinton, not on Bosker Street, including Tamara Flowers, Bowen’s probation officer; Mcherlich (“Mack”) Bowen, Bowen’s half-brother who lived at 504 Clinton during the relevant time period; Mirietta Irving, a neighbor of 504 Clinton who also drove Bowen to work on occasion; Lee Buchanan, Bowen’s stepfather; and Jean Buchanan-Bowen, Bowen’s mother. Some witnesses testified they knew Bowen had rented the Bosker Street residence, but did not believe he 1 Although Shepard testified M ac Jones was Bowen’s stepfather, Mr. Jones himself later testified he was actually Bowen’s half-brother’s father. -12- Nos. 05-1706, 05-1795 United States v. Bowen, et al. lived there. Some witnesses also testified Bowen had a full-time job during some portions of the alleged conspiracy period. Additionally, Mcherlich (“Mac”) Jones, Bowen’s half-brother’s father, testified he rented the upstairs apartment in the Bosker Street property he owned to Bowen, the tenants in a downstairs apartment complained about the amount of traffic to the upstairs apartment, and Bowen told him he had subleased it to Shepard. Jones never personally checked on who was living in the apartment. Jones was prepared to evict whomever was living there, but the police searched the property before he had a chance, and whoever was living there vacated it. The defense intended to call Hall to testify, but he indicated he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right if called, and the defense chose not to call him as a witness.2 Bowen did not testify on his own behalf.