The defendant’s quote is straight of a 1970’s B-movie.
State v. Pegues, Wisconsin Appeals, November 11, 2009.
Pegues contends that statements he made to police at the scene should have been suppressed. The trial court denied Pegues’s pretrial suppression motion.
The court found that police were dispatched to a report of shots being fired and that when Officer Novy arrived, Pegues was slowly walking away from the vehicles, using a four-legged walker.
Novy recognized Pegues from previous contacts. The court found that Novy approached Pegues and asked him words to the effect of what was going on. Before Pegues responded, another officer told Novy that the victim said that Pegues had been shooting at her.
Novy could not see a gun in Pegues’s hands, and he asked Pegues if he had a gun. Pegues replied that he did and it was in his car.
Pegues also told Novy “I tried to shoot the bitch, she won’t leave me alone.”
Pegues was then arrested.
via FindLaw | Cases and Codes.
