Lil Boosie Trial Day-2: Michael "Marlo Mike" Louding Takes The Stand & Denies Killing Terry Boyd

"Day three of testimony in the first degree murder
trial of Baton Rouge
rapper Torence Hatch, a.k.a. Lil Boosie began with
19-year-old Michael
"Marlo Mike" Louding taking the stand.
Prosecutors say Louding confessed to killing Terry
Boyd in 2009 and
that Hatch gave the order to do so. Louding has
not yet gone to trial
for his alleged involvement in Boyd's death.
On the stand Monday morning, Louding said he never
told law
enforcement that he shot Terry Boyd, but instead,
he was at Hatch's
house the night of the murder. He said Hatch and
Adrienne Pittman, the
accused getaway driver, never left the house.
Prosecutors said in
opening statements they expected Louding to lie on
the stand.
On the interrogation tapes played in the
courtroom, Louding at first
said he wasn't involved in the murder. A couple of
days later, when
asked again, he said he did go to the house where
Terry Boyd was and
shot him through a window. He said he then went
back to Hatch's house.
He added once the phone calls came in saying Boyd
was dead, Hatch paid
him $2,800.
Once the tapes were played, prosecutor Dana
Cummings asked Louding if
his memory was refreshed. She then asked if he was
telling members of
the jury that he did not kill Terry Boyd.
"I never killed Terry Boyd," Louding answered.
"And, Mr. Hatch never
paid me to kill Terry Boyd."
Cummings then played two phone calls between
Louding and a man
identified as "Donkey." During those phone
conversations, "Donkey"
told Louding he can beat this and that nobody saw
anything. He told
Louding to say he only brought up Hatch's name
because he was beaten
and that he was told his parents would be locked
up. During
questioning on the stand, when Louding did say he
was told his mother
and stepfather would be locked up, Cummings told
him, "You're
following 'Donkey's' script."
Louding said he asked several people several times
for a lawyer. The
defense pointed out that when Louding was read his
rights, he never
answered whether he understood or not.
Louding also testified that he was told by the
district attorney's
office and police that Hatch was trying to kill
him. He said they told
him the best way for that not to happen was to get
Hatch off the
street. Louding said he was told by police Hatch
had a $25,000
contract out on him.
Also at issue Tuesday was the length of time
Louding was questioned. A
detective testified Louding was picked up for
terrorizing a young
woman. They said he was questioned from noon until
10 p.m. on that
day. But for the first seven hours of questioning,
the tape recorder
was never turned on. The defense said when the
record button was
pressed the first thing detectives said was,
"Let's get this
straight."
"He reads him his rights and says, 'Alright,
you've come a long way
dog... Now, get it straight with me,'" said Jason
Williams, one of
Hatch's attorneys. "Now, what does he need to get
straight if he's
telling his own story? If he's telling his own
story, he doesn't have
to get it straight. Just tell us what happened."
Also not on the tape is when the district attorney
came in to speak
with Louding about making a deal. The detective
said that did not
happen until after questioning. Defense attorneys
asked if someone
pushed stop on the recorder. The detective
answered, "No, that was not
recorded."
On the tape, detectives told Louding he was only
being charged with
the terrorizing/assault charge, even though he had
just confessed to
murder. Detectives testified they lied to Louding,
saying there were
witnesses and physical evidence linking him to the
scene. They said
they also told him no one would believe he was
innocent.
Defense attorneys questioned Louding about telling
doctors he hears
strange voices in his head telling him to do bad
things. They also
asked Louding about other people who were at
Hatch's home the night of
the murder and who had bad blood with Terry Boyd.
Jurors were told
Adrienne Pittman and Boyd had problems and Boyd
had just robbed a man
named Mike "Ghost" Judson, who is also now
deceased.
At one point during the trial, Louding was
instructed to stand in
front of the jury and show the tattoo on his
stomach of an AK-47 with
the words, "Yo Boosie Who's Next" around it. When
asked what that
means, Louding said it was just a tattoo.
Prosecutors said Louding got
the tattoo two weeks after Boyd was murdered. They
said the tattooing
was done at Hatch's home.:"