Christopher Allen Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “A defendant may not be convicted of an offense on the testimony of a person to whom the defendant made a statement against the defendant's interest during a time when the person was imprisoned or confined in the same correctional facility as the defendant unless the testimony is corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense committed.”). 12 . The State suggests we apply an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reginald Ray Washington, Jr. v. State

2. “Q. Okay. So Chris never specifically said, “I want you to lie about this.” A. He asked — he pretty much, you know what I’m saying, asked me to sign an affidavit. Just like I told him and said first, pretty much asked me to sign an affidavit saying that Andre was going to try to put the case off on him, you know what I’m saying. If it’s saying lying or what you feel like that is, I don’t know.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips, Christopher Allen

3. “'the testimony of a person to whom the defendant made a statement against the defendant's interest' must, at a minimum, tend to connect the defendant with the offense committed ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips, Christopher Allen