463 F. Supp. 2d 1008 - Lisker v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. “[1] a jailhouse informant to whom Petitioner supposedly confessed offered similar testimony in other cases, had access to information about Petitioner’s case which was a potential source of a manufactured confession ... recounted facts .in conflict with the evidence, and appeared to have had undocumented prior contacts with police in Petitioner’s case; [2] a likely suspect with a violent erimi nal record gave very suspicious statements to police soon after the murder but was investigated no further ...; and [3] missteps in the investigation likely tainted the original jury verdict as suggested by various facts including that the detective in charge of the case threw away, or at least did not preserve, key evidence and made misstatements to state authorities about the case years later.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Hash v. Johnson

2. “Dowtu: If this guy — I'd be talking to him. If he comes up with something else. Detective: Well, a, now if I was to tell you to go ahead and talk to him some more, you’d be acting as my agent. Dowtu: Oh, I see. Detective: And you can't do that, but we will be coming back up here to see you again.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 651 F. Supp. 2d 1097 - Lisker v. Knowles