Washington v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “We ... find no merit to Washington’s claim that a violation of his double-jeopardy rights occurred. In support of his double-jeopardy claim, Washington argues that he was punished multiple times for the same offense. However, the record belies his claim. Washington’s indictment for capital murder alleged that he killed Woods while engaged in the commission of armed robbery. A jury subsequently convicted Washington of capital murder and imposed the death penalty.... On [February 25, 1983], the circuit court resentenced Washington to life imprisonment for his capital-murder conviction. Also on February 25, 1983, the State indicted Washington separately for the aggravated assault of Clark and for the armed robbery of Thompson. As noted above, Washington’s indictment for capital murder provided that he murdered Woods while[ ] engaged in the commission of armed robbery. Today’s case, however, involves Washington’s crime of aggravated assault against Clark. This Court has held that separate offenses, though committed under a common nucleus of operative fact, do not present a legal impediment to multiple prosecutions under the double jeopardy clause of both the federal and the state constitutions. Therefore, Washington failed to raise a threshold showing of a double jeopardy violation since the offenses at issue constitute separate offense, and since the State did not separately charge Washington with the underlying felony offense to the capital-murder charge. This argument is witho”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 So. 3d 1246 - Johnny Lewis Washington v. State of Mississippi

2. “Woods Quick Pick, a Columbus, Mississippi convenience store, was. robbed on the night of March 26, 1977, by two men armed with shotguns and wearing stocking masks. During the robbery, one of the bandits, later identified as Johnny Lewis Washington, at close range shot J.K. Woods, the proprietor of the store, in the stomach with a long-barrel shotgun loaded with buckshot. Woods died about five hours later in a Columbus hospital. Booker T. Cole, Jr. testified that between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. on March 26, 1977, Johnny Washington contacted him and told him to come by his house because “he had something up.” Sometime later, when Cole arrived at Washington’s house, the defendant told Cole that they were going to rob a Quick Pick. Washington provided Cole with a stocking mask and a sawed-off shotgun, and they took up their station across the street from Woods Quick Pick. After assembling and loading their shotguns, when the coast was clear they ran across the street and into Woods Quick Pick store. J.K. Woods, owner of the store, Roy Thompson, an employee, and a female employee, Elouise Clark, were in the store. Cole and Washington pointed their shotguns at Woods and Thompson, and told them to open the cash registers and “give us the money.” Thompson began to put the money from the first cash register into a brown paper sack. Cole, the smaller and younger of the two robbers, found a bank sack of money in a cabinet drawer, and he fled with that sack. Washington, in the meantime, order”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 So. 3d 1246 - Johnny Lewis Washington v. State of Mississippi

3. “On May 10, 1977, a Lowndes County grand jury indicted Washington for the capital murder of J.K. Woods.... A jury subsequently convicted Washington of capital murder, and he was sentenced to death. The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Washington’s conviction and sentence on July 12, 1978. See Washington v. State, 361 So.2d 61 (Miss.1978). On February 25, 1983, in response to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s mandate in Washington v. Watkins, 655 F.2d 1346 (5th Cir.1981), .the circuit court re-sentenced Washington to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department Of Corrections (MDOC) for the crime of capital murder. On that same day, February 25, 1983, a Lowndes County grand jury indicted Washington for the armed robbery of Roy Thompson.... Washington pled guilty to armed robbery and received a forty-year consecutive sentence in the custody of the MDOC. Washington was also indicted for the aggravated assault of Elouise Clark in Lowndes County cause number 7926.5 Washington pled guilty to the crime of aggravated assault, and the circuit court sentenced him to a consecutive sentence of twenty years in the custody of the MDOC. On July 19, 2011, Washington filed a PCR motion [ (first PCR motion) ] challenging his [aggravated assault] conviction. Then, on July 29, 2011, Washington filed a PCR motion [ (second PCR motion) ] challenging his [armed robbery] conviction.... On August 26, 2011, the circuit court entered an order dismissing in pa”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 So. 3d 1246 - Johnny Lewis Washington v. State of Mississippi