Amid the weeklong murder trial of Chance Copeland that resulted in a conviction and a life sentence, Judge William Eichman came to learn that the defendant s mother had threatened a witness who testified against her son and that a spectator may have been relaying what was happening at the trial to p
Before handing down Chance Copeland s life sentence for murder, Judge William Eichman in the 364th District Court on Tuesday told the 32-year-old that he believed he didn t intend to shoot and kill the woman driving the SUV carrying three other people two years ago.
However, Eichman told Copeland, who did not testify during his seven-day trial, that he believed the evidence showed that he intended to kill at least one of Oden s passengers. And (the jury) correctly found you guilty of murder, he said.
He denounced Copeland s attempts at manipulating investigators and intimidating witnesses and told him the evidence in the last three days showed that he deserved the life sentence.
Jurors at a murder trial in the 364th District Court on Thursday heard from three witnesses who identified a defendant as the gunman in a deadly June 2019 shooting in east Lubbock stemming from a botched drug deal.
Prosecutors called on Dichali Williams, Ashley Ordaz and Juan Atencio, to the witness stand on the fourth day of Chance Copeland s trial. Copeland, 32, is accused in the June 2, 2019, shooting death of Cassie Oden at a game room in the 400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The witnesses appeared with their attorneys and were provided testimonial immunity.
Williams, who went by the street name Dragon, and Atencio, who went by the street name Pac Man told jurors they were riding with Copeland and Aundra Singleterry in a white Cadillac thinking they were going to a drug deal.
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