Johnson v. Tice’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “[W]e note that Dick admitted at trial that he had not told the truth to the police regarding several details of the crimes. Those details included the room in which the crimes occurred, the question whether Michelle performed oral sodomy on Tice and Williams, and the issue whether Michelle had gained control of the knife and threatened Williams. However, despite these and other inaccuracies in his earlier statements to the police, Dick was consistent in his sworn testimony implicating himself and Tice in the rapes and murder of Michelle, and did not change or retract any aspect of that testimony on cross-examination by Tice’s trial counsel. We also observe that Tice’s counsel failed to present any evidence showing that Dick had a motive to fabricate his testimony concerning Tice’s role in the crimes. When Dick gave his testimony at Tice’s trial, Dick was serving two sentences of life imprisonment for his crimes against Michelle and was not subject to any additional penalties for those crimes.... Th[e] evidence established that Dick and Tice did not have a prior relationship that could support a charge that Dick disliked Tice or was otherwise biased against him. Thus, this evidence additionally supported the credibility of Dick’s testimony about Tice’s participation in the crimes. Tice’s defense at trial was based on the theory that Ballard alone committed the offenses against Michelle. Tamika Taylor’s testimony undermined this theory. Her testimony revealed that Williams had ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tice v. Johnson

2. “there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shaikh v. Johnson