What this means for Donyell
Coffee County caught Brown in Randall’s car and then spent weeks listening to his jail calls. The deputy kept notes at home. Neither his stop report nor those notes have been produced.
What Coffee County did
- May 28, 2020: Deputy Blake Simmons stopped Brown in Randall’s Mitsubishi, saw gloves and clothes in the back seat, did a “quick search,” and released the car to the family.
- Brown’s three phones were booked as his property (Coffee County case 2020026754) and released to Chattanooga Police June 10, 2020.
- The deputy said he listened to “almost every” one of Brown’s jail calls and kept notes at home, and sent Chattanooga audio of Brown “pissed off at Poonie.”
- Brown was interviewed at the Coffee County jail on June 1, June 10 and June 18, 2020.
Not produced
- The deputy’s stop report.
- His jail-call notes.
- The K9 audio from the stop.
- The property record for the gloves and clothes.
- The June 1, 2020 visitor log.