would be at most five years imprisonment. He testified that he was in jail for five and a half months until his mother paid his bond. He stated that he made the plea deal in exchange for his testimony, but he never told the police that he gave the gun to the defendant or that the defendant asked him for the gun. He testified that he had had the gun for only a day before he loaned it to the defendant and Bailey. On redirect, Cavalier testified that he is still on probation and lives in Houston. He reiterated that both the defendant and Bailey came to get the gun from him and both were present when they returned the gun. He stated that he did not askthem why they wanted the gun and that he had no direct knowledge of what they did with it. He testified that because they were laughing when they returned the gun, he did not think they had done anything bad with it.
The final witness was Detective Harold Wischan, the NOPD officer in charge of the murder investigation. He testified that when he arrived on the scene, Ms. Mehrtens' car was still parked in the driveway; there was blood near the driver's door, and keys in a nearby flowerpot next to the blood. He testified that a blood trail led around the front of the car, across the front yard, to a wooden gate. The trail continued through the gate to the right side of the house next door