190 F. Supp. 2d 990 - Cathron v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2002
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Rose v. Lundy · Malloy v. Hogan · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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“The victims, Connie Thomas and her teenage daughter, Teika, lived together. Connie Thomas testified that two men came to the door holding inflated helium balloons and asked for Teika by name. She believed that the balloons were for her, her birthday having been two days earlier. As Teika approached the door, the men forced their way into the house, held a gun to the victims, tied the victims up, ransacked the house, and took various items, including televisions and jewelry. Both victims testified that they did not recognize the two men who robbed them, but that the robbers knew them by name. Teika testified that she had known defendant for a time before the robbery, and that defendant had come to her house to see her several times in the weeks before the robbery. Connie Thomas had met defendant on one of the occasions outside the house, when it was dark, and for a short time. She testified that Teika had introduced him as “Drey.” Teika testified that a couple of days after the robbery and after defendant was in jail, a friend of hers called her and there was a three-way conversation with defendant, dining which defendant tried to bribe her not to testify against him by offering her money and one of his cars. Teika testified that she had not previously reported this conversation because she was scared of defendant. Officer Mata testified that while on routine patrol around 5:00 p.m. on February 6,1996, he and his partner, Officer Peck, spotted a 1978 Grand Prix matching the de”
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