P. v. Olsem CA3
Tweakers may not make reliable witnesses or sympathetic defendants to juries, particularly when a corpse is buried 10 feet from a tweaker’s backyard. Indeed, methamphetamine is the main character in this murder tale. All of the prosecution’s percipient witnesses, the defendant, and Larry Lillard, the decedent, were habitual users, although they also drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, and ingested other drugs as well. Following grueling cross-examination challenging the reliability of the witnesses’ accounts that defendant had told them he buried Lillard, who he referred to as “Uncle Larry,” in the backyard, that Uncle Larry was “pushing up daisies,” that he sold Uncle Larry’s motorhome and depleted his bank account, a jury convicted defendant William Patrick Olsem of first degree murder.
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