TESTIMONY What witnesses said

Bill Sweet, a cabdriver for Independent Taxi Co., was a witness to Patrolman Michael Hartzell's shooting. Sweet said he saw Koliser's face and picked his picture from a photo lineup shown to him by police the day after. Defense lawyers suggested that he'd seen Koliser's picture on TV previously, which is how he recognized him. But Sweet said police had initially released a photo of a different suspect and he called them immediately to say they were looking for the wrong man.
Patrolman Eric Reese of the Youngstown Police Department was one of the first officers on the scene. He found Hartzell slumped in Car 207, with blood smeared all over the driver's side window.
Sgt. Joe Dematteo of YPD said Pinellas County, Fla., authorities turned over to him a letter Koliser had written to his sister while he was hiding in Florida. Prosecutors said the letter contained a confession of the shootings.
Officer Anthony Marzullo, YPD crime lab technician, showed jurors bullets and bullet fragments that were recovered from Hartzell's body during an autopsy.
Dean Phillips, an employee of Miller Rod & amp; Supply in Boardman, said he sold a box of .38-caliber hollow-point bullets to Koliser's friend the day before the shootings. He also sold her a holster specially made to hold a short-barrel revolver. He said hollow-point bullets are designed to expand on impact, inflicting more damage on the target.
Defense attorneys William J. Mooney and Jerry McHenry did not cross-examine most of the state's 12 witnesses. They are not expected to call any defense witnesses after prosecutors rest their case, which was expected to happen at the end of today.