State v. Bruce.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “So this whole thing about [CW] lying and can't be believed, well, the only people who can't be believed was [defense witness] Keshawn Stewart and [defendant] Mr. Bruce. The fact of the matter is that they treated her like she was property . .... ... They didn't see her as any thing more than a piece of property to pass around, to mistreat, to humiliate, intimidate, beat, and force. That is how they viewed her, that is how they treated her. But she's not a piece of property. I mean, she's somebody's daughter, she's somebody's friend, she's a mother, she's a woman, she is a person, and she deserves to be treated properly [.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Magbulos

2. “with offenses arising from their alleged involvement in and benefit from the activities of a prostitute, the complaining witness (CW).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Magbulos

3. “did not constitute an improper appeal to the jury's emotions that bore no objectively legitimate purpose,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Magbulos