State v. Abdullah

MEYER, Justice.

Defendant first contends that he is entitled to a new trial because of the prosecutor’s actions in allegedly coercing a witness, Clarence Buchanan, to identify the defendant as the man who sold him Officer Cannon’s service revolver.

The evidence at trial tended to show that defendant, after killing Officer Cannon and taking the officer’s revolver, together with Owens and Randolph, fled the scene in the car driven by Washington. A short distance from the store, defendant threw Officer Cannon’s revolver from the car window. The following day, 24 November 1981, Martin apparently…