Griego v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Officer Arena testified that after he turned on his overhead lights, made a u-turn to follow appellant, and activated his siren momentarily to indicate that he was pursuing appellant, appellant continued to accelerate away and then turned onto Princeton Drive. On Princeton, appellant began to alternately brake and accelerate erratically, ‘like he didn’t know what to do,’ ultimately driving off the end of the road into a wet grassy area and spinning his tires. When Arena pulled behind appellant, appellant reversed towards Arena’s vehicle, causing Arena to back away to avoid a collision. Appellant then accelerated forward again toward the end of the road, running partially off the road before finally stopping halfway on gravel and halfway on grass. Additionally, appellant himself testified that he saw Officer Arena’s lights come on before he ever turned onto Princeton. Appellant said that when he saw the officer’s lights come on, he .(appellant) ‘took off and turned onto Princeton. Appellant admitted that once he turned, he could see Officer Arena’s vehicle and overhead lights in his rearview mirror. Thus, by appellant’s own admission, he knew at this point that Arena wanted him to stop.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Griego v. State

2. “We could tell that it did speed up a little bit; not to a real high rate, but a little bit. Because, like I said, we did observe it accelerate, and the dust was blowing up around the vehicle as it was going down the street. 7”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griego v. State