177 So. 3d 423 - Baxter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY ¶ 4. The facts and procedural history are taken from the Court of Appeals opinion. When Baxter failed to appear at a sentencing hearing on July 19, 2010, [the trial court issued] a bench warrant ... for his arrest. On July 21, 2010, Sheriff Welford told Deputy Bobby Daffin about the bench warrant and instructed him to be on the lookout for Baxter. Deputy Daffin knew Baxter and his girlfriend, Brandy Williams, from their prior encounters with law enforcement. Later that same day, Deputy Daffin saw Williams driving her father’s maroon Chevrolet Z71 pickup truck in Lucedale, Mississippi. Deputy Daffin had seen ... Williams[ ] driving the truck before, and he knew that Baxter was usually in the truck with her. Deputy Daffin could see the arm of a passenger, who appeared to be leaning back in the seat in order to hide. He could not see the passenger’s face, but based on his suspicion that the passenger was Baxter, he made a u-turn on Old Highway 63 and drove toward the truck to further investigate. As Deputy Daffin neared the truck ... the driver fled at a high rate of speed. After witnessing the truck pass several cars in a no-passing zone and force other vehicles off the road, Deputy Daffin initiated his blue lights.... The driver refused to stop, leading law enforcement on a seventeen-mile chase, with speeds reaching over 100 miles per hour. Based on information received from Deputy Daffin regarding the truck’s location, Sheriff Welford and Deputies”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christopher Lee Baxter v. State of Mississippi

2. “S-3A (in pertinent part): If you find from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable [doubt] that: (1) On or about July 21, 2010, in George County, Mississippi; (2) CHRISTOPHER LEE BAXTER, alone or in conjunction with another, killed Garry Welford, a human being and peace officer, while Garry Wel-ford was acting in his official capacity as a peace officer, with knowledge that Garry Welford was a peace officer, (3) and that said killing was done without authority of law by any means or in any manner, in the commission of an act eminently dangerous to' others and evincing a depraved heart, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual. ... S-5: One who willfully, unlawfully, and fe-loniously aids, abets, assists, or otherwise encourages the commission of a crime is just as guilty under the law as if he or she had committed the whole crime with his or her own hands. S-6A: The guilt of a defendant in a criminal case may be established without proof that the defendant did every act constituting the offense alleged. The law recognizes that, ordinarily, anything a person can do for himself may also be accomplished by that person through the direction of another person as his or her agent, or by acting in concert with, or under the direction of, another person or persons in a joint effort or enterprise. If another person is acting under the direction of the defendant or if the defendant joins another person an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christopher Lee Baxter v. State of Mississippi

3. “One who willfully, unlawfully, and felo-niously aids, abets, assists, or otherwise encourages the commission of a crime is just as guilty under the law as if he or she had committed the whole crime with his or her own hands.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christopher Lee Baxter v. State of Mississippi