State v. Figueroa’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 235 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[I]f the defendant puts forward evidence to suggest that the state reasonably could have executed the warrant sooner, the issue of whether the state executed the warrant within a reasonable period of time is properly a question of fact for the jury.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Suarez, No. Mv99-0639258s (Nov. 23, 1999) · State v. Swebilius

2. “In December, 1992, the trial court held a hearing on [Figueroa’s] motions to suppress the victim’s identification and to preclude the state from introducing evidence of uncharged misconduct.... At the hearing, the victim testified at length concerning her opportunity to observe her assailant and her subsequent identification of [Figueroa] as her assailant. She testified that she had obtained a good look at her assailant, particularly during the ride back to Hartford. She also testified that on January 3, 1984, she had given the police a description of the man who had sexually assaulted her. The events between the victim’s initial description of her assailant on January 3, 1984, and her identification of [Figueroa] in September, 1984, are unclear. The victim testified that, on one or more occasions, in January and March, 1984, she had been shown photographs by the police for the purpose of identifying her assailant. She also testified that prior to September, 1984, she had identified [Figueroa] from photographs shown to her by the police, even though she had never signed the back of a photograph signifying a positive identification. Con tradicting the victim’s testimony, however, was a March, 1984 report by Wertz stating that the victim had been shown twelve photographs of Hispanic males, including [Figueroa], but that the “complainant was unable to make an identification.” The victim also testified that at some point she saw a newspaper article from The Journal Inquirer, date”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 596 F. Supp. 2d 482 - Figueroa v. Commissioner of Correction

3. “In the early morning hours of January 1, 1984, the victim was seated in her car outside of a friend’s home in the city of Hartford when an individual, later identified by the victim as [Figueroa], opened her passenger side door and forcibly entered the vehicle. [Figueroa] placed a knife to the victim’s throat, ordered her into the passenger seat, got into the driver’s seat and drove away at a high rate of speed. During the thirty minute ride, [Figueroa] cursed at the victim, told her to keep her head down and not to look where they were going, and struck her several times. [Figueroa] eventually parked the car in an area near a gray barn in a tobacco field. He then ordered the victim out of the car. When she refused to leave the car, he ordered her into the back seat, where he began to disrobe her. When the victim expressed a fear that [Figueroa] would rip her clothing, he allowed her to remove her own clothing. During this process, she lost a red leather belt with a distinctive belt buckle in the shape of a fish. [Figueroa] then sexually assaulted the victim for approximately twenty to thirty minutes. Initially, [Figueroa] forced her to have vaginal intercourse and then, when she refused to perform oral sex on him, [Figueroa] compelled her to have anal intercourse. After repeated assaults, both parties dressed themselves. While dressing, [Figueroa] took the victim’s gold chain, which was worth approximately $600. Because the chain had been a gift from her father and was of gr”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 596 F. Supp. 2d 482 - Figueroa v. Commissioner of Correction