Thursday, November 22, 2007

Bakery handyman ordered to stand trial for Chauncey Bailey killing

Bakery handyman ordered to stand trial for Chauncey Bailey killing
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/22/BAG7TH1KQ.DTL

In an Oakland courtroom Wednesday, Deputy District Attorney John Jay played tapes of two phone calls that Broussard made from jail. In them, Broussard said he would be behind bars for the rest of his life and that a top official of the Oakland bakery had "told me to tell on myself."

The judge also heard the taped confession that Broussard made to investigators and rejected defense arguments that police had obtained it through coercion. Defense attorney LeRue Grim has said Broussard falsely confessed at the prompting of bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV.
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In a second call two hours later from jail, Broussard told an unidentified man, "You ain't gonna never see me again" because they "got me for murder."

"I don't got nobody else to call," Broussard said. The man then launched into an expletive-filled tirade at Broussard for having talked to police.

Broussard began weeping, and the man told him, "Quit crying." The man demanded to know why Broussard would let people "send you to go do something" when they "ain't did (anything) for you. (They) did nothing for you, man! They wasn't even taking care of you. So why would you risk yourself for someone else?"

Broussard replied, "I don't know."

Outside court, Grim maintained that Broussard was being unjustly accused for a killing that someone else at the bakery committed. "Things will be much clearer" when Broussard testifies at the trial and identifies the real killer, Grim said.

"He was manipulated from different angles by different people," Grim said. "He was confused."
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In other testimony Wednesday, AC Transit bus driver Antoinette Carroll testified that she had seen a masked man carrying a large gun approaching her bus the morning of the killing, and that she had sped off.

Two witnesses to the killing, Jia Hong Chou and Yai Ling Lau, testified that they had seen a masked man dressed all in black shoot Bailey. Neither was asked by the prosecutor to identify Broussard as the gunman.

1 comment:

Serr8d said...

...did you see the latest from Berkeley, the tree-huggers not leaving the trees?