Cell mate: Anderson bragged about Craigslist notoriety:
Defense request to let jurors dry-fire gun in Craigslist murder trial rejected:
35-year-old Gregory Wikan also spent some time in jail with Michael John Anderson. Mr. Wikan is also a former professional cage fighter. He was in jail for violating his probation. Wikan testified that when word made the rounds that he was a cage fighter Anderson approached him.
He said Anderson told him: `I’m better known than you are.’
“I said, `Well good for you; I didn’t feel that it was it was a contest,”’ Wikan testified. “He asked me if I’d heard of the Craigslist murder…He was cold-faced; There was no expression.”
Wikan said he urged Anderson not to discuss the case, but Anderson said he didn’t care:
“He said they’re trying to put him away for a long time. They found a girl in the trunk, and (he said) he was pretty much guilty of it.”
Anderson’s attorney argued that this was just a ploy Anderson used to make himself appear tougher in jail to protect himself from physical or sexual assaults.
Wikan also claims that he made no deals for his testimony.
Wikan told the courtroom that he came forward with this information after he was released because “she could be somebody’s mom, somebody’s daughter…”
“I just felt I needed to do this if I had information that was important to the case,” Wikan said.
It also seems that Anderson’s attorney is trying to establish that the shooting was accidental because he asked a weapons expert how delicate the trigger to a .357 is and could it have gone off if dropped.
I’ve never fired a .357 before so any weapon enthusiasts out there feel free to weigh in.
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