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Calaney’s Attorney Says She Has No-Case To Answer To
posted (May 25, 2016)

For the past 16 days now, 29 year-old Calaney Flowers has been standing trial in the court room of Justice Troadio Gonzalez for the capital offenses of murder and attempted murder. Police say that on August 28, 2012 she used her car to intentionally knock her ex-boyfriend, 29 year-old Lyndon Morrison, down. He was on his motorcycle with his new girlfriend Sochyl Sosa, and the impact of the collision caused them to suffer serious injuries, which ended up claiming Lyndon Morrison's life.

Well, since we last reported on the trial without jury, a lot has taken place. The prosecutor, Crown Counsel Sheneiza Smith, has called a number of witnesses including Morrison's mother Laurel Grant, as well as Sochyl Sosa, the woman who survived the deadly accident.

She told the court last week from the stand that, on that night, at around 9:00 o'clock, she was at home, when Lyndon Morrison arrived at her house to pick her up on his motorcycle. They stopped at Friendship Restaurant on Mahogany Street to buy a burger and headed to a Chinese shop near to get a juice.

 Sosa said that that while they were at the Chinese shop on Mahogany Street, she saw Morrison's ex-girlfriend, Calaney Flowers. who approached them and began to talk.

  Sosa said she paid Flowers no mind, but she heard when Flowers, in hard talk, threatened to withhold visitation rights of their shared child. According to Sosa, Flowers drove off in her red car, but some 5 minutes later, she spotted Flowers once again.

Sosa continued her testimony that she sat on the back of the motorcycle with Morrison driving. Just as they approached Belcan Bridge, they managed to overtake Flowers' vehicle and that after they passed her, she turn around and saw that Flowers had accelerated and was still following them.

Sosa said that after they passed the flag monument and bumper by Freetown Road Atlantic Bank Branch, she looked back. She said that she then immediately she told Morrison, "This woman will kill us because she was coming with a speed behind us."

  Sosa said that was when Morrison assured her, "Don't worry, she won't do us anything."

 But according to Sosa as Morrison drove the motorcycle up the second bumper on Freetown Road, and he went closer to the left side of the, sidewalk that is when she looked back again and she said to Morrison, "She is still coming."

According to Sosa, it was shortly after that when the impact happened and the next thing she knew, she was unconscious.

In cross examination, Attorney, Arthur Saldivar asked Sosa what she meant by the impact?

Flowers explained the impact with Morrison's motorcycle and the defendant's red car.

Attorney Saldivar also asked Sosa in cross examination, how many interviews she had given to the media houses regarding the incident back in 2012.

Sosa told him about two but she was not sure.  She ended up agree that she had done two interviews with the media houses regarding the incident.

In cross examination, Saldivar also put it to Sosa that at the point when she claim she told Morrison, the girl was kill us, what was Morrison response and Sosa said Morrison told her, "I cant' stop baby, I deh go too fast."

It is with these words that Arthur Saldivar in his no case submission to Judge Troadio Gonzalez .He asked the court to consider that Lyndon Morrison may have caused his own death. According to Saldivar, there is evidence that had emerged in the trial so far that Lyndon Morrison was going too fast. He couldn't stop in time, and that's what led to the accident.

Saldivar also asked the court to consider that Morrison's death was an accident and that he crashed into a pickup truck, which was parked in front of Central Christian School. He also added in his no case submission that there were no damages seen or found on Flowers's red vehicle indicating that she may have touched his motorcycle with her car in anyway.

After hearing the no-case submission, and the Prosecution's response, Justice Gonzalez adjourned the case until next week Monday, when he'll deliver his ruling on the no-case submission.

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