State v. Price’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “THE COURT: . . . We will continue with the questioning as requested by 31, and that will be the last thing we do this evening. Everybody else is excused until tomorrow morning at 9:30. Leave your numbers on your bench. JUDICIAL ASSISTANT: Mr. Hammond [prosecutor], the party that's been sitting in, do you know who that is? MR. HAMMOND: Mother of the victim. JUDICIAL ASSISTANT: And she is not going to be testifying? MR. HAMMOND: No, she won't be. THE COURT: I'm going to ask— MR. HAMMOND: Do you mind stepping out for this part? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Could I ask a question of the Court? Start here tomorrow at 9:30, or just at 1:30? THE COURT: 9:30. But the jury is going to form or the venire is going to form downstairs at 9:30 and then, when we are through here, then we will call up the venire when we are ready for them in the morning. They are going to come in at 9:30 to the first floor. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Okay. And then the resumption of the pretrial is at 1:30? THE COURT: No, no. We will start the voir dire about 9:30. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Okay. So it will be all day? MR. HAMMOND: Yes, all day. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you very much. THE COURT: Thank you.”

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   e.g. State v. Price

2. “that this was when the note was written is an argument that goes to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of the evidence. ¶ 20 The evidence shows that Carter was confronted by Price with a gun during a domestic violence dispute and he was angered even more by the police's arrival. This, together with evidence indicating that the note was written shortly before the shooting, is sufficient to establish that Carter wrote the note at a time when she reasonably believed her death was imminent. ¶ 21 Price further contends that”

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   e.g. State v. Price

3. “Identifying the killer to assist police in the prosecution did not appear to be the purpose of the note, as Price suggests. Given the circumstances, Price's identity was not in question: Carter identified him to the 911 dispatcher, he was the only one at the house and police observed him there. Rather, the content of the note conveys an intimate communication, intended as parting words to a family member. It was addressed affectionately to Carter's daughter (as opposed to the authorities or”

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   e.g. State v. Price