Lisa Greene’s attorneys claimed Cabarrus County EMS paramedic, Kelly Coulter, acted “inappropriately” when she spoke to jurors during a recess break Greene’s capital murder trial.
Coulter and her paramedic partner, Christy Brown, were standing outside of the Cabarrus County Courthouse along with jurors from the trial Tuesday after testifying to Greene’s actions the fire that killed her two chil-dren when a man attempting to escape arrest fled the building.
The man, who’s name wasn’t released, had been found guilty of drug possession in a lower court, and at-tempted to flee arrest by running from the court room and out of the building. Two bailiffs and a bail bonds-man chased him. The man was apprehended outside of the courthouse.
During the chase, a man exited the building and claimed shots had been fired inside the building. Those claims were untrue.
Coulter told the jurors who were standing in front of the building’s sliding glass doors to “get away from the front.”
When Robert Campbell and Lisa Dubs, Greene’s attorneys, heard of the exchange between the paramedic and jurors, they said the actions seemed highly inappropriate because it violates the law the witnesses cannot speak to jurors at anytime during a trial. The two asked Judge Robert Bell to reconsider a motion to call a mistrial.
Outside of the presents of the jury, Coulter was asked to testify about the exchange between her and jurors during the break.
Bell denied the plea saying that Coulter “acted in the interest of safety and did the what she needed to for keep everyone safe.”
Court proceedings resumed after Coulter’s testimony.
