State v. Bledsoe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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1. “C.A. was afraid to be alone at night with [Floyd]. [Floyd] loved C.A. and wanted to know where she would live after he and Heidi were divorced. C.A. was dropped off at the Bledsoe trailer by the school bus driver at 4:20 p.m. on Friday, November 5, 1999. [Floyd] admitted to two different law enforcement officers on two separate occasions that he had been at the trailer within minutes of her being dropped off. A friend found C.A.’s school bag at the trailer at 5 p.m., but C.A. was not there. [A hunter] heard screams of a young woman near the dairy where [Floyd] worked. [Floyd] could have been finished with his chores around 10:30 p.m. when he received a phone call from C.A.’s mother indicating she was going to call the police. He told her not to do so. He was absent from the dairy shortly thereafter. At 12:45 a.m., he picked up his son Cody from the babysitter and returned him to the babysitter 2 hours later at 2:45 a.m. The evidence suggests that Cody witnessed C.A. being shot and put in the ditch. Cody was only with [Floyd] when he was not at the babysitter’s home. [Floyd] knew Tom kept a pistol in his truck. He admitted to Tom that he killed C.A. with Tom’s gun. He admitted when Tom asked him if he raped C.A. that he knew her bra was over her breasts. He told Tom where the body was buried. [Floyd]’s father confirmed that [Floyd] was in his green car in the area after the roadside conversation between [Floyd] and Tom. [Floyd] informed his mother that he knew Tom did not kill”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bledsoe v. Bruce