Opinion ID: 168528
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Testimony of Mr. Brown

Text: 27 Mr. Short spent several days in a holding cell at the Oklahoma County jail. Another occupant of the holding cell, Jay Brown, who had been arrested for distribution of marijuana, testified that he met Mr. Short there. According to Mr. Brown, there were about twenty-two people in the cell. Mr. Brown testified that he saw Mr. Short write die, Brenda G, Brenda G is a slut, and burn Brenda G on the cell's walls. Rec. vol. IV, at 171-72. Those writings are evident in the photographs of the cell taken later by Detective Easley. 28 Mr. Brown testified that after discovering his brother was an attorney, Mr. Short asked if fingerprints would appear on a bottle when one's fingers were taped. Mr. Brown also testified that Mr. Short told him that one day he caught Brenda having sexual intercourse with her brother-in-law and that Mr. Short then returned to Two Guys Auto. Mr. Brown testified: 29 I think [Mr. Short] said he looked for a gun . . . somehow it was locked or something, so he came up with the idea to use a Coke bottle and a sock. He put gasoline in the Coke bottle, put the sock in the gasoline and put it in there. Went back to the apartment, opened the door, threw the bottle,—watched it hit . . . shut the door so they wouldn't be able to run out and left. 30 Id. at 173. Mr. Short told Mr. Brown that, before shutting the door, he saw the bottle hit a man in the apartment in the head. Mr. Brown testified that Mr. Short was nicknamed Fireball within the cell. Id. at 189. 31 Mr. Brown testified that he believed that he was originally facing a sentence of five years to twenty-five years. After his testimony in this and another case, he received a five-year deferred sentence.