Constables at crime scene before police arrived, Lee had crack cocaine in system
Greta Brown-Bully asked a Hinds County Court to dismiss all charges against her for lack of evidence. A Hinds County grand jury indicted Greta Brown-Bully for the murder of Larry "Caveman" Lee on April 24.
The indictment includes counts of first degree murder, drive-by shooting, and evidence tampering. The alleged murder took place at her liquor store,
the Toast & Sip, on Medgar Evers Boulevard. Ms. Brown-Bully also
owns Bully's Restaurant with her husband and is the daughter of Hinds
County Constable John Brown.
Bully argues there is insufficient evidence to charge her with Lee's murder. She claims:
* She was in the parking lot of her liquor store when Lee approached her after closing. Lee had no right to be there.
* The crime scene was contaminated by the presence of Bully's father, Constable John Brown, Constable Larry Funchess, and Constable Jerry Moore.
* Bully is charged with a drive-by shooting even though there is no evidence showing she shot a firearm while inside the vehicle regardless of whether it was moving or stationary. She argued any gunpowder residue in the vehicle must be discarded since the chain of custody was broken. The vehicle was searched three times before a GSR test was performed.
* Gunshot residue tests are unreliable and no longer used by some law enforcement agencies such as the FBI.
* Two bullets of different calibers were found in the body of Larry Lee. The bullets were compared to Bully's Glock 22 .40 caliber pistol and Smith & Wesson .38 revolver. The crime lab matched the Glock with one bullet. However, the other round is not mentioned in the report. Bully claims the crime lab thus could not make a positive ID.
The defendant asked the court to dismiss the charges or at least suppress the GSR tests.
The police reports attached to the motion provide more information about the investigation. A detective said several people were inside the crime scene who "should not have been in the crime scene." Those people are the three aforementioned Hinds County Constables and Brown's son. Chief James Davis and then-Deputy Chief Ricky Robinson arrived at the scene soon after the detective.
A blanket covered Lee's body, a Kentucky Fried Chicken meal boax, and a Pepsi drink. A shell casing was found inside vehicle. Both guns were recovered from the vehicle. Another (p.25) report states:
The vehicle was released back to Bully on April 28.
The toxicology report (p.43) states Lee had a BAC of 0.03 as well as THC and crack cocaine in his system.
32 comments:
Squirming like a worm on a hook about to be tossed into a pond.
What a precedent this will set! If an AA woman can walk free after killing an unarmed AA man, then it will not bode well for the future life expectancy of potentially disheveled and intimidating, but otherwise unarmed AA men.
Way is the government wasting time with this prosecution? Everyone knows Bully will get a blessing from the judge when it’s all said and done.
If only she were white, everybody would be posting second amendment crap and castle law doctrine.
" Squirming like a worm on a hook about to be tossed into a pond."
As she should be.
I hope "Pappy" (Constable John Brown) has a some tighter sphincter muscles as well.
Is the DA or AGO prosecuting?
@3:31
You are wrong. We supported, even celebrated, the black female that recently ventilated her ex boyfriend home invader a few months ago. But Greta wasn't defending herself when she fired shots from her car window. She was executing a perceived nuisance.
Is this listed as one of the 100 murders in Jacktown this year?
Not so fast 3:31, your desire to paint the world racist has led you to overlook the part where she pulled around and shot again after she was in her car. No one gets to do that under the castle law. Try to find your racism somewhere else.
3:00 - very true, but there is another precedent to be set here maybe even more worrisome.
Woman shoots unarmed man; her father (a LEO by election, not by selection) along with his elected buddies, come to the crime scene and mess with the evidence. So an interesting defense - you should let me go free because daddy and his buddies messed up the crime scene so it should not be used as evidence; and without evidence you must let me go free.
Hells Bells. If all you have to do after you shoot and kill someone and go scot free is to get daddy there before the cops - a whole new way for these constables to make money to add to their retirement pot.
Judge will not and cannot dismiss an indictment unless it fails to state a crime. Only DA has that authority
Bully for her.
All Hinds judges recused themselves.
Sorry. I didn’t know so many JJ readers were witnesses.
" All Hinds judges recused themselves."
That's very telling.
Not surprising, but very telling.
Why waste time on a jury trial. Just let her tell what happened. Tell her what she did was wrong and let her go on with her life. This way, she will have equal footing with the other citizens of Hinds County that kill each other.
I’m sure, if she would have just called the Police, then they would be the ones held on charges!
Damn if you do, damn if you don’t!
1) Surely her father, a trained, professional law enforcement officer, knew better to have contaminated a crime scene. He wouldn't do that. Would he?
2)I've never seen three constables in the same location at the same time. What's up with that? They travel in packs down in Hinds?
3)By claiming what she thinks must have been the case with the other bullet, is she asking the Judge to try the case before it's presented?
4)The deceased 'had no right to be' in the parking lot of a business frequented by the public. Are there 'no trespass' signs or had he been warned to stay out of the parking lot on a prior occasion?
5)If they can get the venue changed to Winona, she'll eventually walk.
Is she using her “Jacksonian Privelege” and not waiting on the blessing of Judge Green or some of Hinds Justice?
" 1) Surely her father, a trained, professional law enforcement officer"
That statement is open to debate.
Brown has been a Constable forever.
Constables aren't even required to attend the Law Enforcement Academy.
They make 10x more money than the average LEO. Constables make said money serving court papers.
But our antiquated laws give them the power of a County Sheriff.
Brown is a politician. . . and a damned good one.
Politics has sullied this case, not picking up spent shell casings at the crime scene.
"2 ) I've never seen three constables in the same location at the same time. What's up with that? "
It's not uncommon at all, call it a Constable thing.
Hell, I would be in shock if less than three showed up at a crime scene like that of little Greta Brown-Bully.
I can speculate . . . as I grew up in the JPD, HCSO and Hinds County Constable "family".
I hope I'm wrong, but they all stick together.
Just Crack, Crack doesn't make you aggressive...I would know.
" venue changed to Winona"
That should be interesting.
Wasn't that where a guy had five or six trials over twenty years . . . ( after being indicted for allegedly gunning down employees in a furniture store) ?
I think the man was finally acquitted last year.
I do remember a Winona convenience store/bait shop that had the best fried chicken gizzards west of Starkville.
If all judges recused, who the heck is presiding over this and will they be fair? No way this lady won’t benefit from her political connections.
They intentionally contaminated the crime scene. The worst that can happen is they testify "my bad."
6:05 anything you say lacks credibility while also displaying your knowledge from the onset when describe a Constable as a trained, professional law enforcement officer.
7:27 - Never acquitted. Convicted or undecided six times. Your state Attorney General finally let him off the hook and moved on to suing China.
6:05 - Learn to recognize sarcasm, dummy. However, the illustrious position of Constable is indeed a profession that comes with blacked out windows, a nice badge, lots of blue lights and the opportunity to overcome one's inferiority issues. Constables should be restricted to serving process and conducting gun safety classes. They should be prohibited by law from appearing at any crime scene.
When the victim approached Greta in the parking lot of her business after she’d turned off the lights and locked the doors, how was she to know he wasn’t armed?
People love to see “high-profile” defendants fall in life just as much as they love to jock them. It’s a character flaw found within the human race and/or most humans who hadn’t experienced “high-profile.”
Jackson is a high crime area, especially for businesses, especially for women, especially at night.
We live in a world where...sorry, I can’t remember everything Jack Nicholson said in the film “A Few Good Men.”
If anything, instead of hoping a jury sends Greta to prison, we should wonder why the victim approached the defendant in the first place, especially under those previously mentioned conditions? This isn’t Rodeo Drive. The murder took place within one of the most crime-ridden cities in America.
I don’t want to have this conversation again.
How do you get "crack cocaine" out of benzoylecgonine? More BS purveyed by morons for morons.
"Crack" sounds better for character assassination purposes but the presence of a cocaine metabolite in one's blood does not indicate if it derived from hydrochloride or base.
Like I said, more BS purveyed by morons for morons.
Much easier to not worry about thinking. Fewer headaches.
"Jackson is a high crime area, especially for businesses, especially for women, especially at night." She is not your typical frightened woman. She causes more fear than she encounters.
"When the victim approached Greta in the parking lot of her business after she’d turned off the lights and locked the doors, how was she to know he wasn’t armed?"
How many folks do you think have been convicted because they shot somebody who the 'thought just might have been armed'. She says she was 'approached' but we'll never know. She says she felt threatened, but she made it up. We can't just shoot people because we don't like their presence. Well, except in Jackson.
PS: Your question is stupid.
The commenter asked a simple question: How was Greta to know Lee wasn’t armed?
It has nothing to do with convictions or asking a question without presenting an inkling of evidence, statistics, graphs, court records, etc.
The question: How did Greta know Lee wasn’t armed?
The answer: She didn’t know.
And how do we know she didn’t know?
Cause she opened fire due to being in fear of her life.
Matter of fact, you’re dumb, uneducated and cowardly. And I can tell that you’re scared of the “white folks” to the point you’d rather die than take a life.
I think there are "alternative facts" that are nothing like the scenarios being written about on this site. There's three sides to every story, and the truth will be somewhere in the middle.
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