1801, 114 L.Ed.2d 297 (1991). The person is aroused by watching and controlling another with knives or guns or injuring them by other methods, including ligature strangulation. We begin with State's Exhibit 19. A trial court's evidentiary ruling on a hearsay objection must be upheld absent an abuse of discretion. We need not recite all the facts and circumstances demonstrating the lack of remoteness. Rector was able to download these introductory screens, and these exhibits were admitted into evidence. In Cooper v. State, 67 S.W.3d 221 (Tex.Crim.App.2002), an aggravated robbery case, the Court held that the general rule is the theft or attempted theft occurring immediately after an assault will support an inference that the assault was intended to facilitate the theft for the purposes of proving robbery. Holik explained why she was late in calling Barajas and added: This guy just left. Holik said that she planned to meet with the man and his wife the following Saturday to show her house. Appellant's hearsay objection was overruled. She had planned to sell the home, get married and move to Houston. Moreover, there is no Fourth Amendment protection against the disclosure of subscriber information by Internet service providers. Thomas K. Clancy, The Fourth Amendment Aspects of Computer Searches and Seizures: A Perspective and a Primer. Some 1,200 necrobabes.com related images were recovered.6. As a result, the court concluded that the detective had temporarily abandoned his search for drug trafficking evidence and intentionally commenced a search for more child pornography not authorized by the object of the existing warrant. at 1271, the detective began to browse through the file directories in Carey's computer and stumbled across a JPG file18 and opened it. The State may prove its entire case by circumstantial evidence alone if it proves all the elements of the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt. 1. For murder to qualify as capital murder in the course of a robbery, the killer's intent to rob must be formed before or at the time of the murder. Rule 403 more strongly favors admissibility than did many of the earlier formulations of the appropriate balancing test, with the opponent of the evidence bearing the burden of showing that the probative value is substantially outweighed by countervailing factors. 1 Steven Goode, Olin Guy Wellborn, III & M. Michael Sharlot, Texas Practice: Guide to the Rules of Evidence, 403.1 (3d ed.2002) (citing Yohey v. State, 801 S.W.2d 232, 236 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1990, pet. Teena Fountain, an IBM coworker from Oak Park, Illinois, testified that on the morning of November 16, 2001, she was contacted by coworkers, Diane Kapcar of Dallas and Cynthia Barajas of Los Angeles, California, who reported that Holik had missed a scheduled meeting, and that they had been unable to contact her by any available means. When Dr. Chakraborty considered the mitochondrial DNA, he decided that the coincidental chance of obtaining the same profile in this case is one in 12.9 million people. . Alternatively, you can call Diane P Holik's home phone at (631) 643-9030. Circumstantial evidence of intent is not required to meet the same rigorous criteria for legal sufficiency as circumstantial proof of other offensive elements. This account has been disabled. In his interview with the police, appellant asked them what motive he would have to kill Holik, a woman that he did not know. The first part of the fifth point of error is overruled. Holik was excited because she thought she had sold her home. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. There are no points of error raised regarding the penalty stage of the trial. Appellant generally complains that all the exhibits were irrelevant, but if relevant, their probative value was substantially outweighed by their prejudicial effect. As earlier noted in the discussion of the fifth point of error, a general relevancy objection does not preserve an extraneous-offense claim under Rule 404(b) of the Texas Rules of Evidence. Facebook gives people the power to. Cranford left the room and appellant stayed behind. He was able to view information about the payment of fees and the purchase of a membership on the Web site. She described appellant as opening the closet door and then dropping his arms to his side and just standing there without saying anything. ref'd). Keeping in mind that appellant does not challenge the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support the murder portion of the charged offense, we examine the challenged portion. Appellant worked at the New Life In Christ Church in Bastrop. We do not reach the second point of error claiming legal insufficiency of the evidence to establish that the murder occurred in the course of a kidnapping. United States v. Carey, 172 F.3d 1268, 1271 (10th Cir.1999). Cranford said that appellant's eyes somehow looked bigger and deeper and darker and that he seemed to be a different person. In State v. Schroeder, 237 Wis.2d 575, 613 N.W.2d 911 (Wis.App.2000), an investigation into Internet harassment and disorderly conduct resulted in a conviction for child pornography. 404(b). The evidence shows that appellant and his wife had a $199,000 mortgage on their trailer home in Bastrop.4. Rector was then requested by a prosecutor to conduct a more thorough search to look for Internet activity related to real estate. In many situations, he wanted to meet the woman realtor alone at the site of the vacant house. Appellant said that some jewelry had been taken from the victim. In his eighth point of error, appellant contends that the trial judge erred in the admission of a hearsay statement. Appellant's brief, however, relates to several statements by the witness Cynthia Barajas. Although it is not clear, it appears that appellant is limiting his point of error to certain witnesses apart from all homeowners and realtors whose testimony was not objectable or to which there was no objection. 17. After examining Gray and Carey, the Wisconsin court held that images of child pornography observed when the analyst was systematically searching for harassment evidence was admissible under the plain view doctrine relating to the seizure of contraband or illegal possession of property. As appellant acknowledged, this was a Web site which is open to any user of the Internet. State's Exhibits 623 through 724 were copies of images and stories that Detective Rector, with a lab computer, recreated from the Web site necrobabes.com using information from the Internet history of appellant's computer as to when appellant accessed the Web site. Hickson's testimony thus falls within the present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule. Assuming that the objections were timely made, see Tex.R.App. TermsPrivacyDisclaimerCookiesDo Not Sell My Information, Begin typing to search, use arrow keys to navigate, use enter to select, Stay up-to-date with FindLaw's newsletter for legal professionals. The person will play out the fantasies, searching out potential victims. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires every state criminal conviction to be supported by evidence that a rational trier of fact could accept as sufficient to prove all the elements of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt. Appellant's DNA was found on Holik's left hand, where engagement rings are worn. See Tex.R.App. Many of realtors were uncomfortable while showing homes to the man. Family and friends are slowly eliminated until it is likely a stranger murder. The prosecution offered evidence of appellant's financial condition during the time period in question. Barajas then stated, [S]he came back, she picked up the phone and she said, they are back on. Barajas estimated that her conversation with Holik concluded about 1:30 p.m. that afternoon. The trial court submitted to the jury both theories of capital murder alleged in the indictment, that the murder occurred in the course of (1) a robbery or (2) a kidnapping. Tex.R. We shall consider the issue presented. Evid. ref'd) (finding no abuse of discretion in admission of prior statement by murder victim that he intended to go to defendant's shop); see Green v. State, 839 S.W.2d 935, 942 (Tex.App.-Waco 1992, pet. pet.). She said, this guy just left. When asked about the length of time from when the man had been there to when you talked to her (Holik) on the phone, Barajas responded, Just moments.21 Barajas testified that Holik told her that she [Holik] had plans to meet this man and his wife the following Saturday to show her house. King v. State, 29 S.W.3d 556, 562 (Tex.Crim.App.2000); Rodriguez v. State, 939 S.W.2d 211, 218 (Tex.App.-Austin 1997, no pet.). 37, 205.15 Detective Roy Rector, a forensic computer examiner with the Austin Police Department, first made a copy of the computer's hard drive, which is protocol for forensic computer examination. The jury is the sole judge of the facts, the credibility of the witnesses, and the weight to be given the evidence. See Tex.R.App. Select this result to view Diane L Holik's phone number, address, and more. The court stated: [The computer analyst] testified that when he searches a computer, he systematically goes through and opens user-created files regardless of their names. Glad he's in prison for life. Season 10 Episode 30 - Videos 2:38 Preview Diane Holik Found Dead After Tornadoes Hit Texas We need not repeat the applicable authorities cited in our discussion under the fifth point of error. Appellant's known fingerprints matched the prints on the black-and-white flyer and prints on the flyer box in Tammy Cranford's yard. ref'd). View Diana Holik results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. See United States v. Mitchell, 145 F.3d 572, 576 (3d Cir.1998); accord United States v. Ruiz, 249 F.3d 643, 646 (7th Cir.2001). Delivered every Monday by 10 a.m., New York & New Jersey Energy is your guide to the week's top energy news and policy in Albany and Trenton. In the same general time frame, Diane Holik was murdered by ligature strangulation in her own home at XXXX Pathfinder in the Great Hills subdivision in Austin, where she lived alone. State's Exhibits 605 through 618 are the Web pages (introductory screens) from the necrobabes.com Web site and available to anyone surfing the Internet. The prosecution called thirteen witnesses who were attempting to sell their homes from May to November 15, 2001, or were realtors. Appellant argues that there were no eyewitnesses to the offense. There were 1,200 images recovered. Appellant was shown to have visited the homes of Thoom Zech and Lisa Faulkner twice on November 15, 2006, as he may have done at the victim's home. ref'd). Dr. Coons's expert opinion was that the facts given to him showed a motive of sexual gratification through ligature strangulation. Such motive is not inconsistent with evidence of intent to commit robbery during the same incident where the intent to rob is timely formed. P. 33.1(a). Holik was a supervisory employee of IBM and worked out of her home. Pastor Fox stated that appellant felt that he was going to be arrested for killing a lady. Later, he parsed out of that history the part associated with necrobabes.com detailing appellant's activity with it. Lang v. State, 698 S.W.2d 735, 736 (Tex.App.-El Paso 1985, no. Appellant stated that the storm began and he left. Jurors had two pieces of evidence that tied Russo to the crime scene: DNA from a hair that matched his and DNA from a swab taken from Holik's left hand. As appellant was leaving, he said his name was Tony, and he asked to take a colored real estate flyer from the table in the foyer. The State urges that the temporary Internet files relating to necrobabes.com were not opened before the issuance of the search warrant on November 18, 2003. 401.Rule 402provides:All relevant evidence is admissible, except as otherwise provided by Constitution, by statute, by these rules, or by other rules prescribed pursuant to statutory authority. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 9. During the course of their investigation, the police learned that, on November 15, 2001, some Great Hills residents, who had for sale signs in the front of their houses, had been approached by a man who claimed to be interested in buying their homes. Ann. As a result of the jury's answer at the penalty stage of the trial to the special issue concerning mitigating circumstances, the trial court imposed a life sentence. In making his factual sufficiency argument, appellant continues to argue that there was insufficient evidence to establish robbery during the course of a murder. Knowing that the Austin storm had spawned some tornadoes, Fountain called the Austin Police Department that afternoon asking for a check on Holik. The record reflects that the police were able to learn from Joe Schwaleberg of Generic Systems, Inc., who operated the necrobabes.com Web site, that on February 28, 2001, Janet Russo paid for a six-month subscription to this erotic asphyxiation Web site, and that on July 21, 2001, Tony Russo paid for a six-month subscription to the same Web site. He stood quietly with his attorneys upon hearing the verdict. We have not found or been directed to any trial ruling on Paige Quinluin's testimony. Carey is factually distinguishable. After a keyword search of certain terms proved negative, Id. ref'd))). The Gray court concluded that under the circumstances, it was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment for the special agent, in his routine preliminary file review, to open the JPG file, and to cease the search and obtain another warrant after viewing the nature of the material. In analyzing a challenge to the legal sufficiency of the evidence, a reviewing court does not realign, disregard, or weigh the evidence. The e-mail and home addresses on the membership records matched appellant's. 22. Rule 803(1) requires that the declaration, if not simultaneous with the event, be made immediately thereafter. Immediately may permit only a slight lapse of time. The local police arrived at the home at 6300 Pathfinder Drive, where they found the body of a white female who was identified as 42-year-old Diane Holik. Holik was engaged to be married and planned to move to Houston where her fianc lived. Conner, 67 S.W.3d at 197. Appellant told the detectives that he became lost during the storm in a residential area of Austin. Evid. He gave the name of Jim Taylor. For a more liberal view of the requirement of contemporaneousness, see United States v. Parker, 936 F.2d 950, 954 (7th Cir.1991); United States v. Blakey, 607 F.2d 779, 784-86 (7th Cir.1979). He claims that the fact that Holik's undisturbed purse was found in her car in the garage dispels any notion of a robbery at the scene. Id. SID Number: 04127272 TDCJ Number: 00655871 Name: RUSSO, PATRICK ANTHONY Race: W Gender . We must remain cognizant of the fact-finder's role. Holik, who worked from home in Austin, was planning on selling her home and moving in with her fiance in Houston. Suddenly, appellant was close behind her in the room and still was not speaking. at 984-85. A violent thunder and rainstorm descended upon Austin in the afternoon of November 15, 2001. Appellant's DNA was also found on Holik's green bath towel that was discovered in the living room. This is true, but the hypothetical scenario propounded by the State to Dr. Coons did not include any reference to robbery. Her $17,500 engagement ring was missing. Evid. Almost more than five years ago, Diane Holik was brutally murdered in her own Home in Austin, Texas, by Patrick Anthony "Tony Russo". If this was an objection, it was not included in the written objections. The trial court had not read the written objections and deferred any ruling at that time. Detective Rector testified that in the original search for sale of homes, that he generated the Internet history of the computer. Medina v. State, 7 S.W.3d 633, 643 (Tex.Crim.App.1999). The State was able to tie some of the viewings to the dates that appellant visited some of the female homeowners and realtors, in order to show intent and motive. The Tenth Circuit held that while the first image of child pornography was discovered inadvertently and was not subject to suppression because of the plain view doctrine relating to seizures, the detective exceeded the scope of the search warrant by searching for additional pornographic images. Hon. On June 18, 2003, a search warrant was issued authorizing the search of appellant's home and the seizure of his personal computer and its content. The computer was seized pursuant to the warrant. See Sharp v. State, 707 S.W.2d 611, 614 (Tex.Crim.App.1986); Williams v. State, 692 S.W.2d 671, 676 (Tex.Crim.App.1984). The man gave different names to some of the homeowners. Evid. Evidence which is not relevant is inadmissible.Tex.R. Rachal v. State, 917 S.W.2d 799, 808 (Tex.Crim.App.1996); DeLeon, 77 S.W.3d at 315-16. Diane was a New York native who moved around the country a lot, thanks to her work. Plenty of dogs at Midland Animal Services are waiting for their furever home. After the State rested its case-in-chief at the guilt/innocence stage of the trial, appellant's motion for an instructed verdict of not guilty was overruled. The touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is reasonableness. Florida v. Jimeno, 500 U.S. 248, 250, 111 S.Ct. See also Huffman v. State, 746 S.W.2d 212, 217 (Tex.Crim.App.1988); Whitaker v. State, 977 S.W.2d 869, 872-873 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 1998, pet. Id. In a legal sufficiency review of the evidence, the jury's inference of intent is afforded greater deference than evidence supporting proof of conduct. In his brief, appellant urges that the evidence admitted over his hearsay objections had no relevancy to any material issue in the case. In the early morning hours of November 21, 2001, police officers executed a search warrant at appellant's Bastrop home. The jury as the trier of fact is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given the testimony and may accept or reject all or any of a witness's testimony. Related To Wilfried Holik, Ingrit Holik, Thomas Holik, Linda Holik. Brown, 552 F.Supp. Templin v. State, 711 S.W.2d 30, 34 (Tex.Crim.App.1986). At the hearing, no objections were addressed to the testimony offered. Id. 404(b).10 No error was preserved on this basis. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, provided that upon timely request by the accused in a criminal case, reasonable notice is given in advance of trial of intent to introduce in the State's case-in-chief such evidence other than that arising in the same transaction.Tex.R. Appellant was released after 8:00 a.m. on November 21, 2001. If you have questions, please contact [email protected] Email not found. The Brewer court pointed out that there was no evidence to show that a theft or a robbery of the victim took place or that the defendant was implicated in the offense. On November 15, 2001, when Hebner was coming home, he observed a gold or brown van parked in front of Holik's home about 5:00 or 5:15 p.m. Diana Olick CNBC Senior Climate and Real Estate Correspondent Diana Olick is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, currently serving as CNBC's senior climate and real estate correspondent. The doctor testified that in his opinion, the hypothetical scenario strongly suggests that the defendant in the scenario sought sexual gratification through ligature strangulation.
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