Wilson v. State

Clarke, Justice.

Wilson was convicted of the murder of Clifford Robinson, Jr. and sentenced to life imprisonment. The victim was a pimp who had several prostitutes working for him. Kelly Crawford, a/k/a “Diamond,” who had worked as a prostitute for Larry Smith and then Leroy Dunbar, decided to have Robinson as her pimp. Appellant Wilson, who was a friend of Smith and Dunbar, went to Robinson’s apartment and shot him in the presence of two witnesses. Both witnesses heard him say he had been paid to shoot Robinson. Appellant then fled to Alabama and later to Portland, Oregon. In Oregon he was…