Opinion ID: 2314684
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Larry Grant's Testimony

Text: Larry Grant testified at the suppression hearing that he lived in John Fulton's apartment building. On June 27, 1978, he had been standing outside the building at about 11 P.M., waiting for his cousin to return his car. He saw three men come out of the alley across the street. They passed within an arm's length of Grant and entered the apartment building. Grant said that the first man was brown-skinned, had an oval hairline and a goatee, and was wearing dark clothing. The second was fair-complected with a very odd color of eyes. He was wearing a red-striped sweater-shirt and was fumbling with something around his waist as he passed Grant. The third man was dark-complected, tall, and muscular-built, with close-cut hair worn in a part. The men gave Grant an eerie feeling, so he returned to his apartment and locked himself in. About fifteen minutes later he heard running footsteps on the stairs, but he stayed in his apartment until the police arrived. Grant testified that he did not then describe the three men to the police; he had been afraid to do so. Grant stated that Douglas Wood, a Public Defender Service investigator, interviewed him in November 1978. Wood showed Grant a photo of the October 31, 1978 line-up and asked whether he could identify any of the men he had seen entering his apartment building on June 27. Grant testified that he had picked the men wearing Shields No. 3 (Grinnage), No. 5 (Greene), and No. 1 (Parks), but that it was a toss-up between No. 1 and No. 15. He added that Wood snatched the photo away before he could look carefully at Nos. 1 and 15. Grant further testified that Wood returned within a week and again showed him the lineup photo. This time, Grant said, he selected Nos. 3, 5, and 15. Grant explained that, again, he felt he was given insufficient time to view the photo. On cross-examination, Grant admitted that he actually had picked No. 15 the first time he saw the photo and had not told Wood that No. 1 was a maybe. Grant also testified that Detective Slawson showed him the same lineup photo in November 1979, and that he had picked Nos. 3, 5, and 1. Grant said that the prosecutor showed him the lineup photo again in January 1980 and that, as before, he picked Nos. 3, 5, and 1. [10] Grant made in-court identifications of Parks and Grinnage but identified a courtroom spectator, not Greene, as the third man he had seen the night of the murder.