Strong v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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35 state decisions

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1. “When the jury returned to the courtroom after its deliberation the clerk asked: ‘Is Cornelius Thomas Strong guilty of the matters wherein he stands indicted or not guilty?’ The forelady replied: ‘Guilty. Guilty of first degree murder, the first degree.’ Appellant’s lawyer said: ‘Poll the jurors’ and the clerk said: ‘Juror No. 2, you have heard the verdict as given by your Forelady. Is your verdict the same?’ Juror No. 2 replied: Tes, it is.’ Each of the other ten jurors was asked the identical question by the clerk and each replied Tes’ or Tes, it is.’ After juror No. 12 had answered yes, the clerk intoned: ‘Hearken to the verdict as the Court has recorded it. You say Cornelius Thomas Strong is guilty of murder in the first degree as to Indictment 3029 of the Docket of 1969, and so say you all?’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Colvin v. State

2. ““The fact that a witness is an accomplice must be shown by proof, like any other fact, but the burden of proving that a witness is an accomplice is on the defendant who asserts it.” (emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 88 Md. App. 229 - Burroughs v. State

3. ““[T]he generally accepted test as to whether a witness is an accomplice is whether he himself could be convicted for the offense, either as a principal or accessory before the fact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 88 Md. App. 229 - Burroughs v. State