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Records dont back witness testimony in EHartford murder

By Alex Wood
Journal Inquirer

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The key evidence in the murder trial of Kenny Holley is surveillance video on a Connecticut Transit bus showing two men boarding the bus a block or so from sneaker salesman William Castillos apartment in East Hartford shortly after Castillo was fatally shot in 2009. The sole witness in the Hartford Superior Court trial who has identified Holley as one of those men is Nicole Clark, who said she worked with Holley for about two days at Kirby vacuum. But Jason R. Smola, the East Hartford police detective who led the investigation, acknowledged Friday that police have been unable to confirm that Holley ever worked for Kirby, which uses door-to-door salespeople to market its vacuum cleaners. That was among the points defense lawyer Patrick Tomasiewicz brought out as he presented Holleys brief defense case on Friday. Holley didnt testify. On cross examination by prosecutor John Fahey, Smola said he also couldnt prove that Holley didnt work for Kirby. Clark called police with her identification of Holley after seeing a news report that included a still photo made from the bus surveillance video. That call played an important part in the investigation. But Clark may not be a central trial witness because the jurors may be able to decide for themselves whether they think Holley is the man shown in the surveillance video. The case against Holley, 25, who has listed addresses in Manchester and East Hartford, is circumstantial. The jury has heard DNA and gun evidence tying Holleys co-defendant, Donele Taylor, 22, to the murder. Taylor has pleaded guilty to felony murder and other crimes and is serving a 32-year sentence. But the jury doesnt know that because Taylor defied a court order and refused to testify against Holley and legal rules

prevented the prosecutor from presenting information about his guilty plea in any other way. Kemorine Parker, who got on the bus at the same stop as the two men, testified that one of them who wasnt carrying a bag and has been identified by other witnesses as Taylor said, I cant believe I got bit by the dog. She said the man carrying a book bag, whom Clark identified as Holley, replied that it was a big dog. Authorities interpret that as a coded conversation referring to the 6-foot, 282-pound Castillo having bitten Taylor during a fight in Castillos apartment. The big dog remark attributed to Holley is crucial because it could lead the jury to conclude that he was in Castillos apartment during the fatal fight. But in testimony Friday, East Hartford police Officer Robert Rohner acknowledged that, after his first meeting with Parker, he wrote a report saying only that the man without the book bag had said he had been bitten by a big dog. Rohner said his report contained no reference to the man with the bag saying it was a big dog. But Rohner also said under cross examination by the prosecutor that Parker never saw his report and had no opportunity to make corrections to it. The defense lawyer called Parker back to the stand as a defense witness, but her testimony may not have helped the defense much. She said she gave her statement to the officer the first time they met and merely signed it at their second meeting. The prosecutor put her written statement into evidence, and it recounts the brief conversation between the two men essentially the way she did in her testimony. Parker did, however, acknowledge one error in the statement. It says she got off the bus in downtown Hartford when she actually got off in East Hartford. Final arguments by the lawyers, Judge Julia DiCocco Deweys legal instructions to the jury, and jury deliberations are scheduled for Monday.

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A total of 43 banks, investment companies, and other financial services sector interests also accounted for $2.5 million in spending on lobbying. Topping the list was the Connecticut Bankers Association, which spent $679,332; followed by Citigroup Management Corp, which spent $172,972; and the investment firm Advantage Capital Partners, a venture capital investment firm that spent

$169,628. Three other business sectors 15 alcohol-related interests, eight tobacco-related companies and trade groups, and six gaming interests also spent a total of $2.6 million on lobbying. The biggest spenders included Altria Client Services, a unit of the company formerly known as Phillip Morris, which spent $393,469. The Connecticut Beer Wholesalers Association spent $305,967, while the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority spent $277,392.

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