P. v. Phillips CA4/2
Phillips and the victim, Charles, were close friends for over 20 years who viewed each other as family. On January 16, 2019, Charles was staying at Phillips’s cousin Breanna’s apartment when Phillips brutally attacked him with a hammer while he was sleeping. Charles was able to escape after several blows and get to the hospital, but his face was badly injured and his left eye had to be removed.
At trial, Charles and Breanna were uncooperative witnesses and claimed not to remember anything about the incident. As a result, the prosecution presented evidence that they both identified Phillips as the attacker in their police interviews at the hospital shortly after the incident. Charles said he’d gone to sleep on Breanna’s couch, and the next thing he knew, Phillips was hitting him in the face with a hammer and screaming “get the fuck out.” Breanna said when she had arrived home that evening Phillips was in the kitchen cleaning the CPAP machine Charles used for his sleep apnea.
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