Bailey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “After having reviewed the arguments of counsel and reading the brief, so that you all know for any curiosity, as I am listening to you all as the trial progresses, I make notes as to what I need to hear to satisfy the State's case. The second item was—well, first, was money misappropriated? I was able to answer that yes. The second item is, so whose money, the City's or the contractor's? Bad as it pains me to do it, I have to grant the motions based on the law. Each defendant is acquitted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Bailey v. State