Kansas Supreme Court - 101551 – State v. Peppers

TVLs "associations." He identified Peppers' telephone number as appearing on his own
telephone's log three times before the shooting.
Three police officers testified that, while Hayes-Osby was in the hospital after the
crimes, he told them that Peppers was the man who shot him.
Two other State witnesses in Peppers' trial also identified Peppers as the shooter.
One, LaTiseia Stano, acknowledged that she had been smoking marijuana and
crack cocaine and had been drinking on the night of the shooting. She testified: "I was
sitting in a car [outside of Terry's] getting high and I heard shots and I turned around and
I seen people running and I, I left." Stano identified Peppers as one of the men she saw
shooting. She admitted that she had previously testified she was not present at the scene
because she was scared. Stano said she was incarcerated at the time of trial, but she
denied having any agreement with the State for more favorable treatment in exchange for
her testimony.
The other witness who identified Peppers, Stacey Lewis, acknowledged that she
had been drunk on the night of the shooting. She testified that she was in an alley across
the street from Terry's to buy crack cocaine when she saw a parked car with "Little Man"
and "Cream" inside. "Little Man" and "Cream" were street names for Cunningham and
Hayes-Osby. Lewis returned her attention to her drug transaction and then heard
gunshots. When she looked back toward the car, she saw two shooters, one of whom she
recognized as Peppers by "the way he moved." Lewis then ran from the scene. When
Lewis was arrested about a month later, she asked law enforcement "if they had ever
caught the person who killed Little Man." When the police told her no, she told them she
knew the murderer was Peppers. Lewis testified that she was given immunity from drug
charges for her purchase of crack cocaine on the night of the shooting in exchange for her
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