he s awaiting trial after punching a man during a pool game. the victim was left in a coma. he suffered brain damage. i always expect the best but prepare for the worst, you know. because i know that is my reality. i could end up in prison. smalls faces up to 20 years if found guilty. he admits to injuring the man and has pled not guilty in hopes of reaching a plea deal for a shorter sentence, but says the odds are stacked against him because he is represented by a public defender. i m putting my life in the hands of a public pretender. my representation is, i feel, minimum. very minimum. i come in this jail and talk to 150 other guys who got the same lawyer. so, how much time does she even have to put in on my case or, for that matter, anybody else s? i talk to clients every day who are extremely frustrated, and i can t say that their concerns are not perfectly legitimate. they are. attorney ashley pennington
aware of what i had done. and as a result of that, i was charged with third-degree simple assault. i was brought over here and booked into the facility. cannon qualified for pretrial intervention, a diversionary program for first-time offenders in south carolina. after completing the court ordered counseling program and 30 hours of community service, his charge was dismissed. i picked up trash along the road. i certainly have a greater appreciation for the trash and littering problem. it was an unfortunate incident that was not what we expect of the sheriff s office, certainly not what i expect from myself. i did accept responsibility for it and dealt with the system and the process the way it s supposed to be dealt. with multiple stays in the jail, adrian smalls is familiar with the intake process. he s awaiting trial after punching a man during a pool
punching a man during a pool game. the victim was left in a coma. he suffered brain damage. i always expect the best but prepare for the worst, you know. because i know that is my reality. i could end up in prison. smalls faces up to 20 years if found guilty. he admits to injuring the man and has pled not guilty in hopes of reaching a plea deal for a shorter sentence, but says the odds are stacked against him because he is represented by a public defender. i m putting my life in the hands of a public pretender. my representation is, i feel, minimum. very minimum. i come in this jail and talk to 150 other guys who got the same lawyer. so, how much time does she even have to put in on my case or, for that matter, anybody else s? i talk to clients every day who are extremely frustrated, and i can t say that their concerns are not perfectly legitimate. they are. attorney ashley pennington
detective tim davis. i asked him to look into it again. i know he s a good forensic man. and told him to go ahead and reinvestigate that and see if he couldn t come up with something. and davis did just that, looking for anything that could be reinvestigated. it was never a closed case. up to that point, all the proper things that needed to be done were done. detective davis decided to go back and reinterview everyone who was in the bar with laura wynn on the night she was murdered. and his interview with candace shipman, who was bartending that night, provided an important lead. she informed me of some things then that she thought was pertinent to the case that she wanted to share. shipman said there was more going on between laura and sam freeman that night than just an argument about the pool game. sam flirted with laura. he tried for her affections. she just didn t seem interested at all in sam. so i think there was a little
she had a friend who was african-american, who had been in her apartment and helped her ready her apartment when she moved in. police interviewed laura s african-american friend. and he had an air-tight alibi. he was with friends on the night of the murder. with no solid leads, police turned their attention to the bar laura visited before she returned home. when investigators interviewed patrons of the bar, they found that laura got in an argument with sam freeman. laura accused him of hustling two young men playing pool. whatever happened wasn t something that came to blows. but there was a disagreement over a pool game. and laura had confronted him. candice shipman was working the bar. she said the altercation was minor. it got a little loud.