Opinion ID: 2148857
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Heading: B.'s Testimony

Text: B.B. testified that she had only known Clark for a few days as of the date of Foster's murderSaturday, July 16, 2005. Several days before that Saturday, Foster learned that Clark did not have a home and invited Clark to stay at Foster's apartment. [2] While spending time at Foster's apartment, Clark apparently observed Foster's drug dealer, Taboo, packaging heroin for sale and selling heroin to Foster. Clark also spent time getting high with Foster and B.B. on drugs that Foster gave him. B.B. and Foster were alone in the apartment and watching a movie in the living room early on Saturday when Clark, Foster's roommate, and the roommate's friend D.T. arrived at approximately 3 a.m. The roommate and D.T. left soon thereafter. Clark eventually asked Foster for some heroin. When Foster told Clark he did not have any, Clark became angry. At Foster's request, Clark then took a seat on the couch and continued to converse with Foster. B.B. testified that she fell asleep while Foster and Clark were talking. B.B. awoke to see Clark standing over her with a gun, telling her to get on her stomach and put her hands behind her back. Clark then ordered Foster, who was lying on his left side, to get on his stomach. Clark bound B.B.'s wrists and feet, and at some point placed a sock in her mouth. B.B. was unable to see Foster but she deduced, based on comments Foster made to Clark, that Clark had also bound Foster's wrists. Clark then asked where the drugs and money were located. Foster told Clark he would find the items in Foster's bedroom. Clark went to Foster's bedroom and returned with drugs and money. Sometime thereafter, Clark carried B.B. from the living room into the bathroom and left her on the bathroom floor in the dark. B.B. testified that she could hear Clark moving around the apartment searching through papers and clothes. After about three hours, she heard a muffled cry from Foster, who had apparently remained in the living room. Soon thereafter, Clark entered the bathroom briefly to reassure B.B. that everything was going to be all right. Clark returned to the bathroom several minutes later and said, Foster, do you care if I fuck your bitch? B.B. heard no response from Foster and Clark then said, Did you hear that?    He doesn't care. Clark then dragged B.B. into Foster's bedroom where he placed her, still bound and gagged, on her back on an air mattress. Clark then partially removed his clothing and pulled B.B.'s pajama pants to her ankles, and vaginally raped her for approximately 10 minutes. When the rape was over, B.B. saw Clark carry a condom into the bathroom. She then heard him flush the toilet and turn on the water. Clark returned with a washcloth and scrubbed B.B.'s genital area. He then went back to the bathroom, ran some water, and returned with the washcloth again. After he washed B.B. a second time, Clark pulled up B.B.'s pants and dressed himself. Clark next turned B.B. onto her stomach on the air mattress. From this position B.B. could see Foster's feet protruding from a laundry bag on the floor, which caused her to panic. Clark then told B.B. that Foster was dead and said, Now it's time for the grand finale. Clark proceeded to kneel over B.B. and to place and hold a plastic bag over her head. He told B.B. to breathe and [j]ust let go. Although B.B. was still bound and gagged, she was able to free her left hand and tear the bag off her face, at which point Clark became angry and swore at her. A minute or so later, Clark stood up, looked out the windows, and started snorting heroin. Shortly thereafter, he offered B.B. some crack cocaine by removing the gag and placing a lighted crack pipe to her mouth. After B.B. smoked the pipe, Clark replaced the gag, rebound her wrists, and rolled her up in some bed sheets. B.B. observed Clark try without success to throw Foster's body out the bedroom window. Clark then dragged the body out of the bedroom. B.B. ultimately heard a door in the apartment shut, then Foster's vehiclea white, SUV-type truckbeing started and a squealing of tires. Five to seven minutes later, Clark returned to the apartment. He unwrapped B.B. and unbound her feet and hands. He then forced B.B. to leave the apartment with him and threatened to kill her mother and children. At the time Clark made these threats, he was holding B.B.'s driver's license, which listed the address where her mother and children resided. When B.B. entered the apartment building hallway with Clark, she saw a neighbor she recognized. As she passed this neighbor, B.B. mouthed the words Help me. The neighbor kept walking, and B.B. followed Clark out of the apartment building. Some people whom B.B. recognized were sitting on the front stairs of the building. She made eye contact with one of them as she followed Clark to Foster's truck, which was parked in the building's driveway. A neighbor then came out of the building and followed Clark and B.B., and as B.B. reached the truck, the neighbor grabbed B.B.'s arm and said to Clark, She doesn't look like she wants to go with you. B.B. then turned and ran back into the building. B.B. testified that she ran through the building's second and third floor hallways and knocked on every apartment door as she ran by, not waiting to see if anyone would answer. She was ultimately admitted into a third floor apartment, and one of the apartment's occupants called 911.