Defense Questions Legitimacy of a Key Witness’s Grand Jury Testimony

By Rachel Benck [former] - April 14, 2023
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

In an April 13 hearing, the Grand Jury testimony for a key witness in a five-year-old homicide case was brought into question.

Alphonso Walker, 45, is being charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the deaths of Dalonte Wilson, 23, and Antone Brown, 44, near the 400 block of 61st Street, NE on April 25, 2018.

The witness told a Grand Jury that Walker confessed to the murder during one of their conversations.

The prosecution is seeking to admit her testimony as out-of-court statements, but Walker’s defense attorneys Kevann Gardner and Prescott Loveland objected.

Defense counsel said the prosecuting attorney, who questioned the witness in the Grand Jury, didn’t ask questions solely related to Walker’s alleged confession. They argued he asked the witness questions related to information other informants provided in the case. 

The defense argued that all the information the witness testified to cannot be attributed to Walker. The parties began going through the transcript line by line to decipher what statements can and cannot be attributed to Walker.

They were unable to evaluate the entire testimony but said they will continue to do so when they are scheduled to return to court on April 19.