Courtroom Updates: Trial Of Man Accused Of Killing Pregnant Girlfriend
Published: January 6, 2009
Updated: January 6, 2009
Updated 3:16pm
Medical examiner Dr. Michael Ward is on stand now.
Updated 2:56pm < Motion denied. Updated 2:40pm She was also a witness to the crash. She says both cars flew by her and she felt like Potlow’s car was agitating the other causing it to crash. She saw the car lose control at least twice before crashing. Updated 12:23pm She had a serious injury in the crash and was in a coma for five days. Goodwin did say she wanted to get out of the car when a victim, Vanessa Vance, got in saying Potlow had a gun, but Burdine told her to stay in the car because he would kill her. Updated 12:06 Updated 12:05pm Judge Miller has agreed to let Burdine come back in and clear up the inconsistencies in what she us saying. The jury is coming in now and Donna Goodwin is taking the stand. She was a passenger in the car who survived the crash. Posted 12:04pm Prosecutors say elder Dennis Potlow had been fighting with his pregnant girlfriend in April 2007 when she jumped in a car with his mother. Elizabeth Burdine is Potlow’s mother. She continued to tell the jury that she never saw her son with a gun but others in her car did.
Public defender John Mauldin is right now calling for a mistrial saying the police officer gave hearsay testimony about what Elizabeth Burdine told him on scene that her son was chasing and shooting at them.
Greenville Police Officer Tim Conway just testified to the statement he took from Elizabeth Burdine the night of the crash. Conway says she seemed alert and fine to talk.
Updated 12:48pm
Eileen Elizabeth Smith just testified.
During Donna Goodwin’s testimony, she told the court she can only remember a snippet of the night.
Marvin Jackson is now on the stand. He was a witness to the crash.
Right now lawyers are arguing about a statement Elizabeth Burdine—Potlow’s mother and the driver of the car—gave in the hospital that she says she does not remember giving.
Jurors will hear from witnesses and a medical examiner today in the trial of a man accused of killing two women and an unborn baby.
Yesterday, the suspect’s mother took the stand saying 911 operators did not answer her call for help.
They say Potlow chased after them in another car and rammed it until they crashed in Greenville county.
Investigators estimated her car was going 75 mph when it crashed.
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I am the daughter of Dorothy White that was killed in the fatal accident that happened on Easter Sunday of 2007. I am very hurt and destroyed by the performance that Mr.potlows mother is putting on in the court room. I really think that they she is being very unfair to the family members of the decease. I would like to see justice and as far as i can see if she wants to lie and uphold her son in his wrong doing then maybe she will do his time.
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