Barry murder
trial underway
■ Two witnesses were coerced
into giving corroborating
statements, the defense says.
BY JOSH FUNK
Witness-credibility ques
tions will plague the prosecu
tion in the first-degree murder
trial of Larry Barry, which began
with opening arguments
Tuesday.
Critical details of the prose
cution’s case will depend on the
testimony of inmate inform
ants, transients and an alco
holic, who was recovering from
a drinking binge at the time of
the murder and police interro
gation, defense attorney Jeff
Pickens said.
Barry, 40, is charged with
first-degree murder and the use
of a weapon to commit a felony
for the March 1999 murder of
James Allen, 38.
Allen was found face down
in his apartment, 1635 F St. #2,
with two knives stuck in his
back.
Two other people charged as
accessories in the crirtie, Larry
Welch, 46, and Jennifer Irwin,
21, are slated for trial later in
November. Both are expected to
testily during Barry’s trial.
When she was arrested,
Irwin was using the name Irwin
Barry and telling people that she
was married to Barry, but spe
cial prosecutor Sean Brennan
said that was not true.
“They told everyone they
were married, but they weren’t
really married,’’ Brennan said.
“They were living together in
(Barry’s) van at this time.”
The three charged in con
nection with Allen's stabbing
were transients at the time of
the crime.
Brennan, who was appoint
ed prosecutor because the
county attorney’s office had a
conflict of interest, told the jury
there would be only two types of
witnesses in this case: police
and .people involved in the
events surrounding Allen’s mur
ier.
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Barry, Welch and Irwin, along
with three other people, had
been at Allen's apartment drink
ing, Brennan said.
Police said Barry went back
to Allen’s apartment that night
to steal $500, and a fight erupted
that escalated to the stabbing.
Brennan said Barry smashed
a guitar, broomstick and vacu
um cleaner over Allen’s head in
the attack.
Pickens, a Commission on
Public Advocacy lawyer
appointed to defend Barry,
countered that the prosecution
found no evidence in Allen’s
apartment or Barry’s van to link
the defendant to the crime.
Pickens also criticized
Lincoln police interrogations of
Irwin and Welch, and suggested
that they were coerced into
incriminating Barry with threats
of prosecution.
Pickens also tried to cast
doubt on Welch’s statements by
arguing that Welch is an alco
holic and may have been hallu
cinating from alcohol with
drawal when he gave his state
ment.
Barry maintains he did not
kill Allen, and Pickens said the
surveillance videotape from
Wal-Mart shows that Barry,
Irwin and Welch were camping
in the store parking lot at the
time of the murder.
The trial is expected to last
two weeks.
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UNITED NATIONS -The U N.
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