Tex.R. ref'd). United States v. Carey, 172 F.3d 1268, 1271 (10th Cir.1999). The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the contents of appellant's computer as contended. We conclude that the general rule stated in Cooper is applicable capital murder cases where the offense was committed in the course of a robbery.7. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The Web site was accessed or visited by appellant's computer in the month prior to the victim's murder, including on November 13, 2001, two days before the offense occurred. Appellant asserts that none of the missing property was found in his possession or ever recovered, despite searches of his home and church office, the use of metal detectors in his yard, and a survey of pawn shops. The trial court specifically overruled the Rule 403 objections to other witnesses but deferred any ruling on the witness Paige Quinluin until trial.13 It appears that the trial court also overruled the later objection that certain witnesses overreacted in describing their encounters with appellant. Evid. The doctor testified that in his opinion, the hypothetical scenario strongly suggests that the defendant in the scenario sought sexual gratification through ligature strangulation. Brewer is factually distinguishable from the instant case. Cardenas v. State, 115 S.W.3d at 62-63. "When Holik was killed, I called police and said 'It's him."'. 403. Cranford was close to him. Holik's death story has been highlighted on the episode of Dateline. Resides in Austin, TX. Cathy Vance, a forensic analyst with the white collar crime unit in the district attorney's office, analyzed appellant's financial records. The body was fully clothed and there was no evidence of a sexual assault. We need not reiterate the evidence. See Camarillo v. State, 82 S.W.3d 529, 537 (Tex.App.-Austin 2002, no. His complaint about the testimony provided by Melody Blount, Annette Beeler, Connie Morton, Stephanie Nichols, Kathleen Hamlet, Sandy Menley, and Johna Ramirez is based on contact with appellant alleged to have occurred in May 2001. He looked at her and his demeanor seemed to change. See Tex.R. There are two ways in which a court may find the evidence to be factually insufficient: if the evidence supporting the verdict is so weak as to make the finding of guilt clearly wrong or manifestly unjust, or if the verdict is against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence. At the hearing, appellant agreed that Barajas's warning to Holik was not hearsay and expressly stated that he had no objection to the testimony about Holik's recovery of her ring or rings. Barajas then stated, [S]he came back, she picked up the phone and she said, they are back on. Barajas estimated that her conversation with Holik concluded about 1:30 p.m. that afternoon. Thus, the jury may infer the requisite intent to rob from the conduct of the accused. See Sharp v. State, 707 S.W.2d 611, 614 (Tex.Crim.App.1986); Williams v. State, 692 S.W.2d 671, 676 (Tex.Crim.App.1984). Rector then performed some keyword searches on the hard drive copy using Diane Holik, Pathfinder, and Lakki Brown (Holik's realtor). In points three and four, appellant claims that the evidence was factually insufficient to establish the same issues raised in points one and two. Diane Holik Profiles | Facebook Please try again. Dogs inside the house appeared to have left fecal matter on the carpet, indicating that they had been confined for some time. Born September 10, 1958 Died November 16, 2001 (43) Add photos, demo reels Add to list Credits IMDbPro Archive Footage Previous 4 Homicide: Hours to Kill Self - Victim (archive footage) TV Series 2018 1 episode They have also lived in Huntington Station, NY and Wyandanch, NY. Holik had plans to meet on the weekend with a man who was leaving her house when she talked to Barajas on the telephone. Six Degrees of Murder: Ties That Bind - Philo Appellant received approximately $50.00 a week for his work at the church. Current counsel makes no belated request for the record. Intent may be inferred from the acts, words, and conduct of the accused. Facebook gives people the power to. The prosecutor requested Rector to determine if there was additional information of that type on the Internet history concerning necrobabes.com. Rector was to continue his search for matters relating to real estate and the sale of homes in the Austin area. All the doors and windows were locked. Choate allowed him to see the inside of the house. TILLA RE LLC is a Texas Domestic Limited-Liability Company (Llc) filed on July 20, 2005. Appellant could not be excluded from two hairs retrieved from a green towel found in the living room.5. All the evidence must be considered, whether rightly or wrongly admitted. 10. Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. Questions Post Question There are no questions yet for this company. Appellant said that some jewelry had been taken from the victim. He further complains that the testimony provided by Tammy Tayman and Holly Dittart are based on contact with appellant, alleged to have occurred in August 2001. P. 33.1(a); Ibarra v. State, 11 S.W.3d 189, 197 (Tex.Crim.App.1999) (claim of error not preserved where defendant objected on the ground the testimony was hearsay, but failed to object to the relevancy of the testimony). pet.). In State v. Schroeder, 237 Wis.2d 575, 613 N.W.2d 911 (Wis.App.2000), an investigation into Internet harassment and disorderly conduct resulted in a conviction for child pornography. Rule 403 provides:Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.Tex.R. Dr. Elizabeth Peacock, deputy medical examiner, performed the autopsy and determined the cause of death to be homicide by ligature strangulation. Appellant claimed that he knocked on the front door but no one at the radio station answered. or. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the exhibits as relevant evidence, or in finding through the balancing process that the probative value of the evidence was not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice. Family and friends are slowly eliminated until it is likely a stranger murder. Her testimony demonstrated that appellant and his wife had more than $40,000 in available monies in 1999, but that at the time of the offense, they had approximately $1,796.19. Rule 403 more strongly favors admissibility than did many of the earlier formulations of the appropriate balancing test, with the opponent of the evidence bearing the burden of showing that the probative value is substantially outweighed by countervailing factors. 1 Steven Goode, Olin Guy Wellborn, III & M. Michael Sharlot, Texas Practice: Guide to the Rules of Evidence, 403.1 (3d ed.2002) (citing Yohey v. State, 801 S.W.2d 232, 236 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1990, pet. 803(1). Holik's last known telephone conversation occurred at 3:30 p.m. on November 15, 2001, and her computer had been shut down at 3:59 p.m. the same day. We have not found or been directed to any trial ruling on Paige Quinluin's testimony. See Diane Holik Vanmil's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. 221 F.3d at 1147. Id. Contact us. Diane Holik - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages 2157, 72 L.Ed.2d 572 (1982)). 401 & 403.9. Appellant's cell phone had calls at 3:30 p.m., 5:34 p.m., and 5:56 p.m. on November 15, 2001, and these outgoing calls originated in northwest Austin. Barajas warned Holik that she should not let strangers into her home when she was alone. He makes no claim that the evidence was inadmissible because it revealed extrinsic acts or misconduct. Moreover, about 5:00 p.m. on the afternoon of November 15, 2001, a van fitting the description of appellant's minivan was seen parked in front of Holik's house. Cranford left and let the dog out of the study because she was uncomfortable. 401, 402, 403. The record reflects that the police were able to learn from Joe Schwaleberg of Generic Systems, Inc., who operated the necrobabes.com Web site, that on February 28, 2001, Janet Russo paid for a six-month subscription to this erotic asphyxiation Web site, and that on July 21, 2001, Tony Russo paid for a six-month subscription to the same Web site. See Moreno v. State, 755 S.W.2d 866, 867 (Tex.Crim.App.1988). P. 33.1. The house was listed with a realtor for $435,000, and there was a for sale sign in the front yard. Guevara, 152 S.W.3d at 49. Barajas related that Holik gave an explanation for why she was late. In Cooper v. State, 67 S.W.3d 221 (Tex.Crim.App.2002), an aggravated robbery case, the Court held that the general rule is the theft or attempted theft occurring immediately after an assault will support an inference that the assault was intended to facilitate the theft for the purposes of proving robbery. Moreover, objections based on remoteness go to the weight rather than the admissibility of the evidence. Diane Tammy Holik (1958-2001) - Find a Grave Memorial ref'd). He asked about the alarm system. Penal Code Ann. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. In points five and eight, appellant complains of the trial court's evidentiary rulings in admitting irrelevant, prejudicial, and hearsay evidence. Appellant did not return the next day. Appellant's relevancy objections were specifically directed only to the question of remoteness concerning appellant's encounters with certain female homeowners and realtors. The State offered and did eliminate certain parts of the testimony of Melody Blount and Tammy Tayman. As a result, the court concluded that the detective had temporarily abandoned his search for drug trafficking evidence and intentionally commenced a search for more child pornography not authorized by the object of the existing warrant. Upon discovering the child pornography, the agent ceased his search and obtained a second search warrant to search the computer for child pornography. The person will play out the fantasies, searching out potential victims. Matson, 819 S.W.2d at 846; Ware v. State, 62 S.W.3d 344, 349 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth 2001, pet. It was an awkward situation. There were no statutory pretrial motions involved. In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 364, 90 S.Ct. To establish the murder portion of the charged offense, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant intentionally or knowingly caused the death of an individual as charged in the indictment. Police Blotter: Necrobabes.com leads to murder conviction Appellant's known fingerprints matched the prints on the black-and-white flyer and prints on the flyer box in Tammy Cranford's yard. Cranford invited him into the house. 1068, 25 L.Ed.2d 368 (1970); Fisher v. State, 851 S.W.2d 298, 302 (Tex.Crim.App.1993); see also Tex. In his brief, appellant urges that the evidence admitted over his hearsay objections had no relevancy to any material issue in the case. Appellant's DNA could not be excluded from four of nine loci considered by Mills. Barajas testified that she warned Holik not to let strangers in her home when she was alone. 17. at 527. The man gave different names to some of the homeowners. In Rosa v. Commonwealth, 48 Va.App. In his sixth point of error, appellant contends that [t]he trial judge erred in failing to suppress evidence from the illegal search and seizure of the contents of appellant's computer. The point of error is broadly stated and based only on a claimed violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 803. See Conner v. State, 67 S.W.3d 192, 197 (Tex.Crim.App.2001); Dewberry v. State, 4 S.W.3d 735, 740(Tex.Crim.App.1999); Garcia v. State, 919 S.W.2d 370, 378 (Tex.Crim.App.1994); Johnson v. State, 871 S.W.2d 183, 186 (Tex.Crim.App.1993). We need not repeat the applicable authorities cited in our discussion under the fifth point of error. The jury is the sole judge of the facts, the credibility of the witnesses, and the weight to be given the evidence. Templin v. State, 711 S.W.2d 30, 34 (Tex.Crim.App.1986). 403. If, based on all the evidence, a reasonably minded jury must necessarily entertain a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt, due process requires that we reverse and order a judgment of acquittal. Fisher, 851 S.W.2d at 302 (quoting Narvaiz v. State, 840 S.W.2d 415, 423 (Tex.Crim.App.1992)); see also Guevara v. State, 152 S.W.3d 45, 49 (Tex.Crim.App.2004). Her $17,500 engagement ring was missing. Sign Up. New York poised to ban gas in new buildings - POLITICO While the police turned to independent sources to determine the nature of necrobabes.com, the State argues that the search of the computer for home sales in the Austin area-the object of the June 18th search warrant-continued as evidenced by exhibits later introduced into evidence without objection. Proc. He left the black-and-white flyer behind. Hon. Dr. Coons was presented with a hypothetical scenario based on the evidence admitted at trial (except evidence of robbery). The proponent of evidence usually has the original burden of showing that it is relevant and admissible. P. 33.1. All these witnesses, except Bob Reynolds, were women. In Campos, the officers learned that the defendant had transmitted two images of child pornography from his computer. 2. The basis of this latter ruling was the state of mind exception to the hearsay rule. Appellant does not brief or present argument or authority in support of any contention that the allegations of murder are not supported by the evidence. In Hall v. State, 970 S.W.2d 137, 141 (Tex.App.-Amarillo 1998, pet. While conducting a systematic search of the files on the hard drive for evidence of harassment, a computer analyst found child pornography. The first part of the fifth point of error is overruled. The jury as the trier of fact is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given the testimony and may accept or reject all or any of a witness's testimony. The warrant was executed. After reviewing Carey, Walser, Gray, and other authorities, the Rosa court wrote: We agree with the reasoning of these cases. Appellant stated that the house was beautiful and that he was going to be selling a ranch and would be paying cash for a house. The grave site of Diane T Holik / Plot 14310373. Diane Tammy Holik, 43, of Austin, Texas, entered into rest on Friday, November 16 2001. Diane Holik Murder: Where is Patrick Anthony Russo Now? The file contained an image of child pornography. Tex.R. Dr. Richard Coons, a psychiatrist and an attorney, testified concerning his training in human sexuality. There they find her lifeless body and a killer who's left few clues behind. Evid. She had planned to sell the home, get married and move to Houston. The trial court also overruled appellate's separate hearsay objection to Barajas's testimony about Holik's plan or intention to meet the man on the weekend. See Tex.R.App. The time frame of her death was placed by the medical examiner from 3:00 p.m. on November 15 to 3:00 a.m. on November 16, 2001. The Web pages viewed by appellant included manual and ligature strangulation. The black-and-white flyer was turned over to the police.3. Appellant did not further object at trial. Id. (3)Then Existing Mental Emotional or Physical Condition. The index.dat files reflect the computer's Internet history but do not contain any Web pages and images. In a legal sufficiency review of the evidence, the jury's inference of intent is afforded greater deference than evidence supporting proof of conduct. Approximately twelve realtors testified that in 2001, a man, whom most of these witnesses identified as appellant, had contacted them about a home or homes he needed to see immediately, and who indicated that he was a cash buyer and could afford houses from $200,000 to $700,000. Patrick Anthony RUSSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. Holik, 42, planned to sell the home, get married and move to Houston. Rule 401 provides:Relevant evidence means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without evidence.Tex.R. A Travis County jury convicted a part-time music minister of capital murder Friday in the strangulation killing of a woman who believed she was showing her home to a potential buyer. In Cooper v. State, 67 S.W.3d 221 (Tex.Crim.App.2002), the Court in reaching its decision revisited its earlier opinion in Nelson v. State, 848 S.W.2d 126 (Tex.Crim.App.1992), and McGee v. State, 774 S.W.2d 229, 234 (Tex.Crim.App.1989), and reconciled these holdings. Tex.R. The Texas Rules of Criminal Evidence was superseded by the Texas Rules of Evidence effective March 1, 1998. Police officers searched appellant's church office on November 21, 2001. Brown, 552 F.Supp. A real estate agent who testified in the case said she was "petrified" when she showed Russo some vacant homes in May 2001. If there is evidence, however, from which the jury could rationally conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant formed the intent to obtain or maintain control of the victim's property either before or during the commission of the murder, then the State has proved that the murder occurred in the course of the robbery. Cranford put her Great Dane dog in the study. There was no objection to this latter statement which was Barajas's opinion, not a present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule. It is not an element of any crime, but evidence of motive is generally admissible because it is relevant as a circumstance tending to prove guilt. Holik's wrist bore indentations showing discernible redness, indicating that her heart was still beating when the wrists were bound. He said that he would set up an appointment for his wife to see the house on the weekend. Cranford told him that she did not use it during the day. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires every state criminal conviction to be supported by evidence that a rational trier of fact could accept as sufficient to prove all the elements of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt. The man, whom Cranford later identified as appellant, noted that Cranford had switched realtors, but the switch had occurred in July 200l. Proximity in time and place may be a factor, but it must be considered along with other facts and circumstances. The State has interpreted appellant's contention likewise and has briefed only the sufficiency of the evidence relating to the aggravating element of the capital murder. Holik's body was found face down on the floor in an upstairs guest bedroom. He stopped opening picture files and obtained a second search warrant that allowed him to specifically search for child pornography. L.J. 19. Appellant cites no authority to support his contentions. She opened the front door for them. If error was properly preserved, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the complained-of evidence in light of the objections made. "He's a predator," said prosecutor Robert Smith, "skilled at deceit and cunning and finding watering holes of potential victims. During the autopsy, police officers collected biological evidence from the victim's left hand. We overrule the third point of error. In Memory of Diane Holik - valleycentral76.tripod.com The victim, an IBM at home supervisor, was found in an upstairs bedroom lying face down. The underlying purpose can be killing, dominating, or humiliating another. In many such encounters, Dr. Coons explained, there is no completed sexual act. In Fain v. State, 986 S.W.2d 666, 680 (Tex.App.-Austin 1998, pet. They arrested appellant later that day at his pastor's house, transported him to Austin, and again interviewed him. Hon. A Bastrop area telephone service representative testified about cell phones registered to appellant and his wife. Several accesses were on November 13, 2001, two days before the Holik murder. Then multiple women report a man behaving strangely while looking at properties for sale or rent. The trial court, however, did admit Barajas's testimony that Holik said, This guy just left under Rule 803(1) over a hearsay objection. In the first and second points, appellant challenges the legal sufficiency of the evidence to establish that the murder was committed in the course of a robbery or in the course of a kidnapping. The seventh point of error is overruled. Using realtor, Rector made a keyword search and found 19 hits in the temporary Internet files and 107 hits in the unallocated clusters.16 On August 1, 2003, Rector presented the extracted Internet history to a prosecutor to see what is real estate and what is not. The prosecutor noted that the Internet history made reference to a necrobabes.com. Rector did not know what that Web site was. At the pretrial hearing, appellant's trial counsel told the trial court that he first wanted to hear the testimony of Detective Roy Rector, the forensic computer expert, and then tailor his motion to suppress accordingly. The local police arrived at the home at 6300 Pathfinder Drive, where they found the body of a white female who was identified as 42-year-old Diane Holik. At that point, he stopped his search and called Malchow [his supervisor]. Appellant has briefed points of error six and seven together, making it difficult to determine just which exhibits appellant complains of in point of error seven. Appellant calls attention to certain words and phrases lifted out of context in the individual testimony. See Tex.R. Id. Nethery v. State, 692 S.W.2d 686, 706 (Tex.Crim.App.1985); Stilwell v. State, 434 S.W.2d 861, 863 (Tex.Crim.App.1968); Thompson v. State, 59 S.W.3d 802, 808 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 2001, pet. ADDITIONAL LINKS Post Question For This Company Contact Us Regarding Your Company Profile All Companies Named A PLACE FOR PAWS Search All Pennsylvania Companies Jurors had two pieces of evidence that tied Russo to the crime scene: DNA from a hair that matched his and DNA from a swab taken from Holik's left hand. During the conversation Holik panicked when she realized that she did not have her expensive engagement ring on her hand. One Possible Clue Found at Diane Holik Crime Scene Investigators were concerned they had a "stranger on stranger" crime, and were frustrated by the lack of evidence. Later, she met her future fiance through a dating service. Id.19. House Shopping or Homicide Shopping? | Diane Holik Case Analysis In connection with appellant's argument, we examine other cases. This is true because a review of the factual sufficiency of the evidence begins with the presumption that the evidence supporting the judgment of conviction is legally sufficient. Details.

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