Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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1. “In the early morning hours ofjune 20, 1997, the H & H Grocery in Holly Springs was robbed and the two women working there, Pennington and Garner, were shot and killed with a 12-gauge shotgun. About an hour later, Sedric Simpson hurriedly went to see Bernard Gregory and left a 12-gauge and some blood-covered money with him; Gregory later testified that, at this same time, he also saw blood on Simpson’s hands. After seeing Gregory, Simpson went to the home of Frederick Wright in Sparkman and told Wright that he had just “offed two bitches.” Simpson was later arrested at Wright’s house. After being advised of his Miranda rights and taken to jail, Simpson signed a waiver-of-rights form and gave a statement implicating his co-defendant Ezekiel Harrison. . . . Later, Simpson’s mother reported that two guns were missing from the trank of the car that Simpson had been driving, so the Dallas County officers searched the car and seized evidence from it.”

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