Morrison thought about whether she’d be able to identify a person she’d seen briefly, from inside a car, six months after the fact. She was “a hundred percent sure” she had the right man.īut Morrison, who worked as a teacher, was surprised to hear Bourgoyne, who was in her 60s, say she’d seen the shooter for only 15 to 20 seconds - and to hear that she told a prosecutor after the murder that she hadn’t been wearing her glasses. Bourgoyne said she picked Shannon’s photo out of a lineup nearly six months after the murder. “He’s the gentleman sitting in the white-and-black plaid shirt over at that table,” she said, shaking with emotion and pointing to the defendant, Michael Shannon. In the courtroom, the prosecutor asked Bourgoyne if she saw the shooter, who ran off after the killing. “The man in the middle fell over,” she told the jury. All of a sudden, a fourth man came up behind them, Bourgoyne said. Bourgoyne noticed three men chatting by a curb outside an Exxon Station, their motorcycles parked nearby. The jurors listened to Bourgoyne say she was sitting in the passenger seat of a car her husband was driving, on a November day nearly seven years earlier, when the couple stopped at a red light near a highway exit in New Orleans. When Mi Wha Morrison sat on the jury of a murder trial, in February 2011, the testimony that mattered most came from the prosecution’s single eyewitness, Emma Bourgoyne. Photo portfolio by Larry Fink Shadow of a Doubt I.
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