Opinion ID: 77991
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 11

Heading: Willie Hinton

Text: Jones testified that Hinton lived with her uncle, Calvin Westry, at the Boykin Towers apartment and drove Westry's vehicles on occasion. Before she saw Hinton associated with her uncle, Jones would see Hinton on Clay Street coming to buy pills, specifically, morphine. She, too, supplied Hinton with morphine pills if she had them. While at the beginning the pills were for Hinton's personal use, the amount he acquired increased, and she had the understanding the pills were for Hinton and someone else. According to Hogue, Calvin Westry was involved in the distribution of drugs from the Boykin Towers apartment, as she accompanied Kimberly Westry, Calvin's daughter, for the pick up of pills (oxycontin). Calvin would give Kimberly instructions as to where to go with the pills. And Hinton used to be there. Beckham observed Hinton at the Clay Street home [s]hooting up pills, or using a needle, in the kitchen. Beckham described Hinton as a junkie. Leonard also testified to having seen Hinton at the Clay Street home and knowing him to be a friend of his uncle Calvin. Confidential informant Foxx testified she sometimes gave Hinton a ride to a house on Maple Street. Hinton would exit the vehicle and enter the house while Foxx drove around the block. When she returned, Hinton would get in the car, and the two would travel back to the Boykin Towers apartment. Officer McKean's undercover buy from Westry on November 16, 2002 involved Hinton. Hinton appears in the telephone calls setting up the undercover drug deal as well as the tape recording of the drug deal itself. During the course of that drug purchase (three oxycontin tablets), Hinton asks the officer for gas money, and the officer paid Hinton five dollars. Officer McKean also spoke with Hinton over the telephone on November 18, 2002 when the officer was arranging a drug buy at the Boykin Towers apartment that was consummated later that day.