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State v. Adams12/20/1999
"took me over and stuck her again and went out the back door." After he left, Linda Lewis went out to the front porch, and Shanta Lewis stayed on the front porch with her mother until the ambulance came. She said the Defendant was "running down the sidewalk hollering he killed the bitch."
Officer Brock Parks testified that he responded to a "domestic in progress" and that he found the victim sitting on her front porch, bleeding heavily. There was "lots and lots of blood outside, around the scene." The inside of the house "was quite bloody . . . as well." Officer Parks talked to a witness, Tamika Rucker, who said she saw the Defendant run out of the house with a box cutter in his hand, yelling, "Next time, I'll kill you, bitch."
Officer Tracy Gatwood testified that he responded to a domestic disturbance involving a stabbing. He discovered the Defendant hiding under some boxes behind a dumpster, sweating profusely. He read the Defendant his rights, and the Defendant said that he understood them. The Defendant then stated that he stabbed his girlfriend because he was mad at her for "sleeping with somebody else." The Defendant also told Officer Gatwood that he would do it again if he got the chance.
Dr. Joan Schleicher, a clinical psychologist, testified for the defense. She testified that the Defendant suffered from a personality disorder and that "he best fits the paranoid personalty disorder." She said she "found many references to impulsivity" in the testing that she did. Dr. Schleicher offered her opinion that based on his personality disorder, it was "very unlikely" that the Defendant could have contemplated the murder of Linda Lewis in a state free of passion and that he did not have the capacity, while laboring under extreme emotional stress, to plan the murder of Linda Lewis or stop and think about what he was doing.
The defense also called Tamika Rucker, who testified that she saw the Defendant come out the back door of Linda Lewis' residence. She thought he had something in his hand because she heard something, and she thought it might have been a gun or a box cutter. She heard him say either, "bitch, next time, I'm going to kill you," or, "bitch, I should have killed you."
Deborah Adams, the Defendant's sister, testified that she lived with her brother and that Linda Lewis was his girlfriend. She said that on the evening before the stabbing, she saw Ms. Lewis and the Defendant in the hallway kissing. She saw Ms. Lewis quite frequently because Ms. Lewis would come to the house two or three times a week during the period of time before the stabbing. She testified that on the morning of the stabbing, Ms. Lewis called twice to speak to the Defendant, but he was not home. She gave him the message when he came home. She said that he looked like he had been drinking, but that he understood her when she told him that Ms. Lewis had called; except for the fact that he had been out all night, he looked normal.
Jalenska Cheatham, the Defendant's niece, testified that she visited the Defendant's house almost every day and that she saw Ms. Lewis there "a whole lot." She said that Ms. Lewis was there the night before the stabbing and that she and the Defendant "acted like they was going together, like a normal couple would." Another niece, Latalia Cheatham, also testified that she often saw Ms. Lewis with the Defendant and that she was "acting like a girlfriend."
In rebuttal, Dr. Samuel Craddock, a clinical psychologist with Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, testified for the State. As part of a team, he evaluated the Defendant to determine the Defendant's competency to stand trial. Later, his facility was asked to render an
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