State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

48 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “On direct examination, DeMaio testified that on the morning of October 17, 1990, he was painting a house located at 358-60 Howard Avenue. When he was interviewed by the police later that day, and on another occasion shortly thereafter, he informed the police that he did not witness the homicide. DeMaio testified that he feared getting involved and, therefore, he did not disclose any information to the police on these two occasions. In 1993, DeMaio contacted the authorities and informed them that he had witnessed the homicide and that the [petitioner] was not the perpetrator. DeMaio testified that he contacted the police because he was no longer fearful of testifying. He also admitted that he came forward after the [petitioner's] friends, Frank LoSacco and Emma Jones, had contacted him. On cross-examination, the state asked DeMaio why LoSacco had contacted him and whether LoSacco had mentioned anything that may have encouraged DeMaio to contact the police.... "On cross-examination, DeMaio admitted that both LoSacco and Emma Jones had informed him that the [petitioner] was wrongly convicted, and that the state's witnesses were drug addicts and paid informants. The state inquired whether those statements from Emma Jones and LoSacco, or other factors, motivated DeMaio to contact the authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 165 Conn. App. 576 - Jones v. State

2. “[A] judicial admission is [an] express waiver, made in court or preparatory to trial, by the party or his attorney, conceding for the purposes of the trial the truth of some alleged fact, has the effect of a confessory pleading, in that the fact is thereafter to be taken for granted; so that one party need offer no evidence to prove it, and the other is not allowed to disprove it . . . . It is, in truth, a substitute for evidence, in that it does away with the need for evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clogher v. United Oil Recovery, Inc., No. 374520 (May 17, 1999)

3. “On cross-examination, DeMaio admitted that both LoSacco and Emma Jones had informed him that the [petitioner] was wrongly convicted, and that the state's witnesses were drug addicts and paid informants. The state inquired whether those statements from Emma Jones and LoSacco, or other factors, motivated DeMaio to contact the authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 165 Conn. App. 576 - Jones v. State