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Updated: 9:25 AM Feb 17, 2010
Stinnett Calls Witnesses in Murder and Kidnapping Trial
If convicted, Stinnett could face the death penalty for murder and kidnapping charges in connection with the slaying of his former girlfriend, Christina Renshaw, back in 2006.
Posted: 6:43 PM Feb 16, 2010Reporter: Daniel Kemp Email Address: daniel.kemp@wbko.com |
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New evidence is presented in the case of Lawrence Stinnett, this time from the defense.
If convicted, Stinnett could face the death penalty for murder and kidnapping charges in connection with the slaying of his former girlfriend, Christina Renshaw, back in 2006.
"Would it be fair to say you knew Christina pretty well, by living together?" Stinnett asked to former Renshaw's former co-worker and roommate Patricia Shaw Tuesday. "Yes," she replied.
Shaw testified Tuesday morning about the past relationship of Christina Renshaw and boyfriend Robert Nuckols.
It's one Shaw remembered being close even while Renshaw and Stinnett were together.
"She was in love with Robert Nuckols," Shaw said. "And was Robert Nuckols extremely abusive to Christina?" Stinnett asked. "Yes he was," Shaw said.
Nuckols did take the stand Tuesday morning.
"Do you have a bad temper?" Stinnett asked. "Yes," Nuckols replied.
Stinnett asked that jurors take a look and compare both him and Nuckols side by side.
Nuckols told jurors Renshaw was calling him on the phone even in the hours leading up to her death.
"And did the the text message she sent you say, 'Are you going out this weekend?" And that she wanted to get drunk and dance on you?" Stinnett asked. "Yes," Nuckols replied.
Betty Campbell, a former neighbor to Renshaw, said she often saw Stinnett in the backyard of the apartment talking to himself.
"Did you not also say that it wouldn't shock you to death if you thought the defendant may be mental?" Stinnett asked. "Maybe some little things but I don't think you're mental. I think you know what you're doing," Campbell said.
During cross-examination she told jurors she had only met Renshaw twice, but on one of those occasions she saw Stinnett come outside and slap Renshaw in the face.
She said he then came after her again.
"He jerked the door open and he came out there again, and I feel sorry for Lawrence and her both, but he urinated on her," Campbell said.
Alanda Lewis took the stand again. She's also charged with murder and kidnapping.
Lewis and Stinnett rode together from Oklahoma City to Renshaw's apartment in Bowling Green after Stinnett says he overheard Renshaw having sex over the phone.
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