As the prosecution wraps up the Devon Callicutt murder trial, prosecutors are introducing what they call "incriminating evidence," letters Callicutt allegedly wrote from prison which include statements admitting to the murder.
In total there are six handwritten pages dated Sept. 13, 2009. In them, prosecutors say are incriminating statements Callicutt allegedly made about the night Richard Bailey was killed.
In one letter Callicutt allegedly wrote "Albany detectives came to question me about that white college kid that got shot in the head last October...but yeah, I did that." In another letter he allegedly wrote "I'm hoping for manslaughter...I'm aiming for 15 years."
Assistant District Attorney David Rossi laid the groundwork to present those letters to the jury by calling several witnesses to the stand from the Mid-State Correctional Facility.
Those witnesses supported his argument that Callicutt wrote the letters which were pulled from the mail room as evidence after Callicutt was put on a mail watch list.
During cross examination, defense attorney Cheryl Coleman worked to disprove the authenticity of the letters, pointing out an error on the evidence envelope and even getting one witness to admit that he broke the seal to check the contents inside.
Coleman argues he damaged the integrity of the evidence and is even going so far to say her client didn't even write the letters in the first place.
Coleman says "Both visitors and other inmates and even outside visitors to the correctional facility all had equal access to those mail slots or drop boxes."
