Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The evidence in this case showed that at approximately 12:30 a.m. on February 16, 2002, a Wendy’s restaurant in Bainbridge was robbed. Williams was an employee of the restaurant. He left work shortly before 12:30 a.m. on the night in question, leaving the shift manager in the restaurant by herself. The shift manager testified that while counting money, she was accosted by a man wearing a ski mask and black jogging pants. He pointed a black gun at her and instructed her to put the money in a bag. He made off with about $3,200, and she immediately alerted the police. Within minutes, numerous law enforcement officers from Decatur County and the City of Bainbridge converged on the scene. No one was found in the vicinity except Williams, who was seen emerging from a wooded area on a bicycle about 100 yards from Wendy’s. He was wearing a pair of black jogging pants underneath a pair of work pants, a red sweatshirt with a snowman on the front of it, and torn striped boxer shorts. In the wooded area, police found articles of clothing which included a beanie cap and ski mask as well as a wristwatch. About 80 feet away, police found a money bag containing approximately $3,200 and a black handgun. Although the shift manager could not identify Williams as the robber, she did testify that the height and weight of the robber matched his. A videotape of the robbery showed that the robber was wearing a red sweatshirt with a snowman on the front of it, black jogging pants from which a pair of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 310 Ga. App. 90 - Williams v. State