397 Pa. Super. 140 - Commonwealth v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “In the early morning hours of August 20, 1989, Appellant received a telephone call from his mother-in-law, Alberta Houston, informing him that his 20-year-old niece, Stephanie had been raped. After receiving this phone call, he woke up his daughter, told her that Stephanie had been raped, telephoned his wife Judy Long at the V.A. Hospital where she worked as a registered nurse, told her what happened, and then proceeded with his daughter to his mother-in-law’s house. Appellant arrived there at 9:30 a.m. to find his mother-in-law “hysterical”. Meanwhile, Judy Long had driven to Magee Women’s Hospital to get Stephanie and take her to Judy’s mother’s house where Stephanie lived. When Judy met Stephanie at the hospital, Stephanie was crying and “devastated.” Judy and Stephanie arrived at Stephanie’s home at around 10:30 a.m. Stephanie was clothed in a bathrobe and still appeared “very hysterical.” She immediately took a shower, and Judy returned to work. About a half an hour later, Stephanie told Appellant that she had been raped. Appellant asked her if she knew who raped her. She said Jonathon Bailey from Homewood (whom Appellant had not known previously) and described the car he was driving. She also told Appellant that Bailey had threatened her that he didn’t care who she had told because if she told anyone and they said anything to him he would “f_ them up and he would f_her up too, and that if she put him in jail, that he was going to kill her when he got out.” About half an”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 400 Pa. Super. 163 - Commonwealth v. Long · Commonwealth v. Long