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- Title: State Nebraska v. George Ellis Newte
- Author : Supreme Court of Nebraska
- Release Date : January 12, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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The appellant was charged and convicted of robbery. At trial, several different versions of the fact situation were disclosed
to the jury. The victim of the robbery was a cab driver who testified as follows: At an early morning hour on November 27,
1970, two men entered the driver's cab while it sat in front of a bus depot in Omaha. The cab driver had been noticing a white
car with a dented fender as it circled the block before the two men entered the cab. The driver proceeded to a destination
requested by his passengers. Upon arrival, one of the passengers, identified by the driver as the defendant, put a dull object
to the back of his neck while the other passenger jumped over the front seat and took the driver's money, glasses, and wristwatch.
Both men then fled on foot and the driver made an attempt to follow. While attempting to follow the men and then moments later
when the police were on the scene, the white car with a dented fender was again noticed by the cab driver. Police officers testified that they stopped the white car pointed out to them by the cab driver and they searched the occupants.
One of the occupants, Ronald Chatman, was carrying a number of small bills and a wristwatch that matched the cab driver's
description. The defendant, George Newte, was not in the car. After the occupants were arrested, one of them informed police
that the defendant Newte had also been involved in the robbery. Later police arrested Newte and took a statement from him.
The statement, read to the jury, was essentially Newte's denial that he had ever entered the cab or participated in the robbery.
Ronald Chatman testified for the defense and contradicted elements of Newte's written statement. Chatman said that Newte did
enter the cab with him but did not want to rob the driver. According to Chatman, Newte got out of the cab before the driver
was robbed. Newte took the stand at trial, said his written statement did not contain the true facts, and testified to facts
which were nearly identical to those given in Chatman's testimony. The State then called a rebuttal witness who had interviewed
Chatman previously and another version of the robbery was presented. Chatman had told this witness that his recollection of
the facts of the robbery was poor due to intoxication, but he did remember taking the watch from the cab driver's wrist and
Newte giving him some of the cab driver's money.
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