男子被控双重谋杀，案发九年后移交给地区法院

道格拉斯·马克·史密斯 (Douglas Mark Smith) 拨打 911 报告 2015 年夏安市中心 The Coin Shop 发生抢劫案，两名男子被枪杀

Douglas Mark Smith, now 68, faces two counts of first-degree murder after being charged nine years after the fact in the 2015 shooting deaths of two men during a robbery at The Coin Shop in downtown Cheyenne.

现年 68 岁的道格拉斯·马克·史密斯 (Douglas Mark Smith) 面临两项一级谋杀罪，他在 2015 年夏延市中心 The Coin Shop 抢劫案中枪杀两名男子的事件九年后被指控。

After making the initial 911 call to report the shooting, Smith was not searched by police, nor was the neighborhood surrounding the shop in case the gunman had ditched a weapon. Additionally, Smith’s vehicle was never searched, and no gunshot residue test was performed on Smith or his vehicle.

在最初拨打 911 报告枪击事件后，警方没有对史密斯进行搜查，商店周围的社区也没有进行搜查，以防枪手丢弃武器。此外，史密斯的车辆从未被搜查，也没有对史密斯或他的车辆进行枪弹残留物测试。

These details emerged during Smith’s preliminary hearing Friday in Laramie Circuit Court.

这些细节是史密斯周五在拉勒米巡回法院举行的初步听证会上公布的。

According to Cheyenne Police Detective James Pendleton, Smith was initially not considered a suspect. He also passed a polygraph test a few months after the crime.

据夏延警探詹姆斯·彭德尔顿称，史密斯最初并不被视为嫌疑人。案发几个月后，他还通过了测谎仪测试。

Following the polygraph, Smith moved back to Canada for a few years, where he’s a citizen, before moving to California, Pendleton said.

彭德尔顿说，在接受测谎后，史密斯搬回加拿大几年，他是加拿大公民，然后搬到加利福尼亚州。

He was arrested June 25 in Siskiyou County in northern California after new interviews with investigators in 2023 revealed inconsistencies with what he told police at the time of the killings.

2023 年，调查人员进行的新采访显示，他与杀戮发生时向警方提供的内容不一致，之后他于 6 月 25 日在加利福尼亚州北部锡斯基尤县被捕。

At the hearing, Smith’s attorney, Rob Oldham, argued that returning to the U.S. from Canada is an indicator that Smith “wasn’t running from anything.”

在听证会上，史密斯的律师罗布·奥尔德姆辩称，从加拿大返回美国表明史密斯“没有逃避任何事情”。

Despite a seeming lack of physical evidence connecting Smith to the robbery, he was bound over to Laramie County District Court.

尽管似乎缺乏将史密斯与抢劫案联系起来的物证，但他仍被送往拉勒米县地方法院。

Most of the Cheyenne Police Department’s case against Smith relies on him being at the scene of the crime around the time it was committed, coupled with inconsistencies in his statements to investigators, his attorney argued during the hearing.

史密斯的律师在听证会上辩称，夏安警察局针对史密斯的大部分案件都依赖于他在犯罪发生时在犯罪现场，再加上他向调查人员提供的陈述不一致。

Nevertheless, Laramie Circuit Court Judge Sean Chambers showed no hesitation in binding the case over to District Court.

尽管如此，拉勒米巡回法院法官肖恩·钱伯斯毫不犹豫地将案件移交给地区法院。

Chambers also rejected a request to allow a bond for Smith, who remains in custody at the Laramie County Detention Center.

钱伯斯还拒绝了史密斯保释的请求，史密斯仍被关押在拉勒米县拘留中心。

Some Holes In The Case

案例中的一些漏洞

Oldham argued the state’s case against Smith lacks sufficient evidence to implicate his client.

奥尔德姆辩称，该州针对史密斯的案件缺乏足够的证据来牵连他的当事人。

“To be quite frank, there’s absolutely no physical evidence that I’m aware of,” Oldham said. “It’s all circumstantial evidence.”

“坦率地说，据我所知，绝对没有任何物证，”奥尔德姆说。 “这都是间接证据。”

Along with making the initial 911 call, Smith at the time claimed that he’d walked in on a Hispanic person robbing The Coin Shop, who pointed a .45-caliber pistol at him and told him to get out of the shop or he would shoot him.

史密斯当时在拨打最初的 911 电话时声称，他遇到了一名正在抢劫金币店的西班牙裔人，该人用一把 0.45 口径的手枪指着他，并告诉他离开商店，否则他就会射他。

Oldham said Smith always thought he was considered a suspect in the case, but police claimed he was not.

奥尔德姆说，史密斯一直认为他被认为是此案的嫌疑人，但警方声称他不是。

“I don’t blame him. If I was in a store and somebody got shot a few minutes later, I’d think I was a suspect too,” Oldham said.

“我不怪他。如果我在一家商店，几分钟后有人被枪杀，我会认为我也是嫌疑人，”奥尔德姆说。

Detective Pendleton said Smith was completely cooperative throughout the investigation, but provided a somewhat unusual amount of detail in doing so.

彭德尔顿警探表示，史密斯在整个调查过程中完全配合，但在调查过程中提供了一些不寻常的细节。

Glaring Inconsistencies

明显的不一致

Authorities interviewed Smith in California in 2023, where serious discrepancies in his recount of the murder scene made him a prime suspect in the case, Pendleton said.

彭德尔顿说，当局于 2023 年在加利福尼亚州约谈了史密斯，他对谋杀现场的叙述存在严重差异，使他成为此案的主要嫌疑人。

These discrepancies involved the timing of Smith’s actions on the morning of the murder and things he claimed he saw in the store concerning the murder scene that he couldn’t have based on his alleged position in the store.

这些差异涉及史密斯在谋杀案当天早上采取行动的时间，以及他声称他在商店里看到的有关谋杀现场的东西，但根据他在商店里所谓的位置，他不可能看到这些东西。

Although Pendleton said he’s confident that Smith was at The Coin Shop for multiple minutes the morning of the crime, Smith couldn’t definitively prove that he spent most of that time in the shop.

尽管彭德尔顿表示，他确信史密斯在犯罪当天早上在硬币店待了几分钟，但史密斯无法明确证明他大部分时间都在店里度过。

Early on in the investigation, Smith identified with strong confidence someone he claimed committed the murders when shown a police lineup. This person was arrested on an unrelated crime, but never charged with the double murder.

在调查初期，史密斯在警方出示阵容时，非常有信心地认出了他声称犯下谋杀案的人。此人因一项无关的罪行被捕，但从未被指控犯有双重谋杀罪。

During his 2023 interview with police, Smith reversed course and said he’s 100% sure the person he saw robbing The Coin Shop was not the one he identified in 2015.

在 2023 年接受警方采访时，史密斯改变了态度，表示他 100% 确定他看到的抢劫 Coin Shop 的人不是他在 2015 年认出的那个人。

Last Gasp

最后一口气

Oldham offered to surrender Smith’s Canadian passport and have him wear an ankle monitor in exchange for the judge offering him a $50,000 cash or surety bond, which Oldham said would be low enough for Smith to be released from jail.

奥尔德姆提出交出史密斯的加拿大护照，并让他戴上脚踝监视器，以换取法官向他提供 5 万美元的现金或保证金，奥尔德姆表示，这个金额足以让史密斯出狱。

Chambers rejected the request and said details like this would need to be put in place prior to any cash bond being established.

钱伯斯拒绝了这一请求，并表示在建立任何现金债券之前需要先落实此类细节。

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