As the two men watched hilarious film of Janis Joplin, Rick Danko of the Band and Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Dead drunkenly singing the old work song "Ain't No More Cane," Mr. Smeaton recalled, "Peter said, 'Yeah, I shot this bit -- I remember it like it was yesterday!' But then the camera pans around and you see Peter sitting there watching them play.
Mr. Kornblum testified that Mr. Avants said that his lawyer had told him that he would not be convicted in that case, " 'Because you can't be convicted of killing a dead man.' " " 'Yeah, I shot that nigger,' " Mr. Kornblum said Mr. Avants told him.
Just last month, I woke up to the shocking New York Post headline: "Suspect in cold-blooded murder of gay man laughed and boasted, 'Yeah, I shot him in the head,' prosecutors say".
"Are you into whisky?" "Oh yeah, I love whisky," I shoot back, without hesitation.
Yeah, I smoke, shoot, the dark tarry clump inside.
"Yeah, I started shooting something for MTV at, like, 9am and it was like a really, really long day, and then I was having meetings for the movies I'm prepping.
"Yeah, I'm sure," I shot back.
And, yeah, so that was one of the first things I shot in New York.
"I said: 'Kory, is that you?' And he said: 'Yeah it's me, I was shot, I was shot,'" Bader told the local newspaper, the Morning Call, two days after the killing.
