Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “Around 3:00 a.m. on the date of the killing, Jackson’s girlfriend, the mother of his son, arrived home from a date to the house which she shared with her parents, her brother, and her son. As she walked up the driveway, Jackson appeared, grabbed her by her jacket, asked where she had been, and threatened to kill her. Screaming, she slipped out of the jacket and ran to the house. As she told her mother what had happened outside, she saw Jackson’s shadow on the exterior door of her bedroom. She went to the back door, saw Jackson there, and went to the front room where her father was sleeping. As she tried to explain to him what was happening, Jackson kicked in the back door. He forced his girlfriend’s mother and brother to accompany him at gunpoint to the front room. When her father started to sit up, Jackson told him to stay down, shot him in the hand when he started to pull the covers up over himself, then shot him several more times, one of the shots wounding the victim fatally in the head. Jackson unplugged the telephone in that room, forced the others to go with him to the room where the child had been sleeping, had the telephone in that room unplugged, then required everyone else to sit on the bed while he sat in a chair in front of the door. From there he conducted a conversation with his girlfriend about her date and their relationship, then began to threaten to kill himself. His girlfriend’s mother eventually persuaded Jackson to take the bullets from the gun and let h”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. BRYSON v. JACKSON

2. “appellate counsel was appointed prior to the filing of the notice of appeal, [Cooper] is procedurally barred from raising for the first time on appeal the issue of ineffectiveness of counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 287 Ga. App. 901 - Cooper v. State