Opinion ID: 2793140
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Allen Martin’s Testimony

Text: The prosecution also called Allen Martin to bolster Hlinko’s testimony. Martin testified that at about 11:00 p.m. on October 19, 1988, he and his girlfriend stopped at the Mobil gas station to buy gas. He recognized John Miller’s distinctively-painted Cutlass 442 parked along the fence on the east side of the gas station. He saw his friends—Makiel, Hlinko, and Ilich—sitting in the Cutlass. After he paid for his gas, he waved to the three men, who were still sitting in the Cutlass, got back in his car, and drove to a game room. He estimated that he was at the Mobil station for a total of three minutes and at the game room for about twenty minutes before he left to drive his girlfriend home. On the way, Martin passed the Mobil station and saw an ambulance and police cars. He read about the murder in the newspaper and later found out that his friends had been implicated in the crime. Martin testified that it took him a while to make a connection between having seen his friends at the gas station on October 19 and their possible involvement in the murder.