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THE BRAND
ISSUE 4 VOLUME 94
IIAR13IN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
FEBRUARY 28 2000
Criminal Court Trial Hosted at HSU
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by Lonnic Lazano
staff writer
A court trial was held in the
Sidles courtroom on Feb 21-22.
Students and faculty were allowed
to sit in on the action. This provided
a great criminal justice majors and
future lawyers to observe our judi-
cial system in play.
The trial was the indictment of
defendant Jermal Rosal Dunstin
on one count of possession of a
controlled substance with intent
to deliver. The street value of the
controlled substance twelve rocks
of crack cocaine was estimated to
be anywhere from $600 to $1000.
His plea was not guilty on all
charges.
The witnesses for the prosecu-
tion involved an officer in Special
Divisions in Street Crime who was
at the scene and in charge of the
arrest a Narcotics agent also at
the scene assisting a chemist for
D.P.S. Lab and a criminal officer.
Witnesses for the defense side
involved the defendant Dunstin
and his girlfriend of five years.
Witnesses on both side were
drilled on their testimonies. No
rock was left unturned by either
attorney. There was no hard evi-
dence to tie to the defendant to the
crime so everything was dependent
upon the witnesses' testimonies.
The crime took place on April
4 2005 in a "drug hot area." An
informant contacted the officer in
Special Divisions in charge of the
arrest. The informant was said to
be a reliable source voluntarily
helping with other cases. The infor-
mant said that in the area there
was a man by the name of Jermal
or Jerod wearing an orange shirt
and black cap with possession of
crack cocaine in a tan plastic bag.
The defendant who fit the descrip-
tion was then arrested at the scene.
During the arrest the defendant
was said to have made a swinging
motion towards the East.
Once Dunstin was arrested offi-
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cers searched the east side area and
found a tan plastic bag on the hood
of a car containing twelve rocks of
crack cocaine. The defenses argu-
ment was that the crack cocaine
was not seen in the possession of
the defendant it was speculated
to have been his. Also the "hot
area" was surrounded by known
drug dealers and it could have eas-
ily been dropped by someone else
during the scramble once the offi-
cers arrived.
The defense is not arguing that
the defendant was an outstanding
member of society. It was said that
he has had previous arrests and
was in the area buying marijuana.
The defendant's testimony stated
that while being arrested he had
thrown his marijuana to the west
side of the area. Dunstin stated
that the officers were not thorough
enough and charged him with the
drugs they found. His girlfriend of
five years stressed that the defen-
dant is not a user of cocaine nor
has ever distributed drugs.
Both officers at the scene had
the same story and stressed that
the throwing motion was to the
east side. The chemist an expert
witness clarified that the drugs
found were indeed crack cocaine.
The criminal officer for the pros-
ecution stated his role in the case
was processing fingerprints of
the tan plastic bag that possessed
the drugs. He also stated that the
material of bag did not allow him
to identify any fingerprints. So
there is no physical evidence tying
the drugs to the defendant.
The defense's closing arguments
stressed that because there was no
physical evidence tying her cli-
ent to crime that he could not be
found guilty of. She also stressed
the testimonies of her witnesses
the defendant and his girlfriend.
The prosecution sumarized the
testimonies of his four witnesses in
his closing argument. After a long
deliberation taking well over an
hour the jury came back as a hung
jury. There was no verdict and
the case will have to be tried once
again if this persists then the court
can declare this case a mistrial.
During the deliberation the
attorneys explained their cases to
the students and answered their
questions. They clarified their rea-
sons behind their case and why
certain things could not be brought
up according to the law.
James Joyce Visits Campus in a Way
by Christa Cantu-Harrison
feature editor
Dr. Thomas Staley a James
Joyce scholar and a professor of
English at the University of Texas
was recently invited by local busi-
ness man and former trustee Bill
Wright to give a presentation enti-
tled "James Joyce and the Fate of
Modernism." The lecture was held
in the Johnson Building Multi-
purpose room on Feb. 16 and was
open to the public.
Dr. Staley said that his presenta-
tion could be described as "reading
James Joyce in the new century.
He referred to Modernism as a
subject "so large and complex that
no one in history can take it on." He
discussed three of Joyce's publica-
tions The Dubliners; A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man; and
Ulysses highlighting certain pas-
sages and characters from each
book. He spoke of the Irish novel-
ist saying "To the Irish he seemed
obscene even mad; to the English
he was just crazy enough to be
Irish and to the Americans he was
the great experimentalist." After
his lecture Staley responded to
questions from his audience.
Dr. Staley is the director of the
Harry Huntt Ransom Center at the
University of Texas a collection of
archives that include 36 million
literary manuscripts one million
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Portrait of James Joyce courtesy ofwwwforumuniversitaire.com
rare books five million photo- the Lives of Writers; Reflections
graphs and over 100000 works of on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's
art. He also holds the Harry Huntt Paris Journal; and An Annotated
Ransom Chair in Liberal Arts. His Critical Bibliography of James
published works include Writing Joyce.
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