Police testify Alex Jackson never asked them to leave during his medical treatment

Choose will rule on whether prosecutors can see health care documents for Alexander Jackson, who’s accused of killing his mother and father, sister

CEDAR RAPIDS — Two Cedar Rapids police officers testified Wednesday that Alexander Jackson, billed with killing his mother and father and sister, did not request them to go away the ambulance or medical center space when he was currently being taken care of for a gunshot harm to his foot.

Officer Timothy Brown said he rode in the ambulance from Jackson’s household in northeast Cedar Rapids to UnityPoint Well being-St. Luke’s Clinic.

Linn County prosecutors are looking for obtain to Jackson’s medical information and feedback he built to clinical personnel the day he was getting dealt with for a gunshot wound.

Jackson’s attorneys are resisting, arguing health-related records are privileged and shielded by regulation, main to the Wednesday listening to ahead of Sixth Judicial District Main Decide Lars Anderson, who will rule on the query.

Brown stated Wednesday that law enforcement had been referred to as to the Jackson residence in northeast Cedar Rapids on June 15, the place they found three Jackson family associates fatally shot: the father, Jan Jackson, 61 the mom, Melissa Jackson, 68 and the daughter, Sabrina Jackson, 19.

Jackson, 20, a Cedar Rapids Kennedy Higher University graduate and student at the College of Iowa, is charged with a few counts of to start with-degree murder.

He was not at Wednesday’s listening to and stays in the Linn County Jail under a $3 million money-only bail.

Jackson told law enforcement the working day of the slayings that he’d been woke up by the seem of gunfire and was shot in the foot as he struggled more than a rifle with a masked intruder.

Alexander Ken Jackson, 20, seems June 16 via video for his preliminary courtroom overall look with Assistant General public Defender Lindsay Garner at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids. Jackson is charged with three counts of 1st-diploma murder in the capturing deaths of his father, Jan Perry Jackson, 61 his mom, Melissa Ferne Jackson, 68 and his sister, Sabrina Hana Jackson, 19. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Assistant Linn County Legal professional Monica Slaughter requested Brown if ambulance staff mentioned they wouldn’t deal with Jackson if law enforcement were not with them. Brown mentioned no.

She asked if Jackson had questioned Brown to go away. He claimed no.

Brown said there is a recording of what occurred in the ambulance and at the healthcare facility simply because he was carrying a physique digital camera.

On cross-assessment by a person of Jackson’s attorney, Tyler Johnston, Brown said in the course of the ambulance trip he didn’t know if Jackson’s story about an intruder was true or not. He admitted to acquiring no “proof” it wasn’t correct.

At the clinic

Cedar Rapids police Investigator Matt Denlinger claimed he went to Jackson’s hospital room and that Brown went into the hallway, leaving his overall body camera in the area. Denlinger stated he and at least one other officer stayed in the room all through Jackson’s remedy.

On cross-evaluation, Denlinger mentioned he read Jackson his Miranda rights at the beginning of his job interview, in scenario Jackson went from getting a target to a suspect.

Johnston questioned if Denlinger read through Jackson his rights under the HIPAA-patient’s proper to privacy concerning wellbeing info.

Denlinger claimed no. It is not his job to inform a suspect of people legal rights. Jackson, he mentioned, did question or “invite” the police to look into the slayings when he claimed the shootings.

Slaughter and Johnston submitted penned briefs to the judge, who gave them until eventually July 7 to incorporate responses to arguments.

Prosecutors also submitted a motion asking the court to give them obtain to Jackson’s faculty transcripts, but that motion wasn’t talked about in open courtroom.

Prison criticism

Jackson named 911, telling the dispatcher he and his father had been shot by a masked intruder. Officers arrived at the Jackson dwelling, 4414 Oak Leaf Ct. NE, at 8:30 a.m. to discover the 3 household members had been fatally shot a number of situations.

Investigators located no proof of forced entry or theft at the house, according to the criminal grievance.

They found a 22-caliber Browning semi-computerized rifle in the residence that law enforcement believe that is the murder weapon. Jackson explained he and his father experienced left it on the fire just after cleansing it the evening prior to, the grievance mentioned.

A prosecutor, during Jackson’s first court docket overall look, claimed Jackson “concocted” the story of a masked intruder to cover up the “execution” of his household.

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