Christopher Musser, who also drank some of the mushroom tea, said Dutson may have been hallucinating like some of the others who had taken drugs. Musser said he thought patterns in the carpet were moving. He said another friend was seeing characters from "The Simpsons" walk around the room.

"He could have been seeing so many different things," Musser said. "Who knows what was going through his head."

Several times throughout the night Dutson proclaimed he wanted to have sex with Hopkins. All of the witnesses said at one point Dutson removed Hopkins' belt from her pants.

"He kept trying to grab her around the waist and unzip her shirt," Rabbit said. "She kept saying, 'No, maybe later. Not in front of everyone."'

When two apartment security guards arrived at the apartment after the shooting, they found Dutson wearing only boxer shorts and a T-shirt sitting on the floor with Hopkins' nearly naked body. The guards testified Dutson was talking really fast and repeating the same things over and over.

Defense attorney Brian Gardner said that his client, who did not take the witness stand Wednesday, does not remember anything from that night.

Dutson sat in a tan jail jumpsuit with only one hand in cuffs during the hearing. The other hand was used to write notes on a pad. A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for June 26.

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