State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “After drinking for some time during the night and early morning hours of March 30 and 31, 1987 at the River Ridge Bar, the defendant, Jerrald Wilson, and one of the victims, Tom Gormin, went to the home Tom shared with his mother, Joan Gormin. Later that day the defendant drove to Baton Rouge and subsequently to New Iberia in Tom Gormin's Ford Bronco. About noon on March 31, 1987, the police found the bodies of Tom and Joan Gormin in their home in River Ridge. Tom had been stabbed numerous times and was found in the kitchen. He was clad only in briefs. A shirt containing spots of the defendant's blood covered Tom's face. Joan Gormin was strangled and stabbed. A "T"-shaped incision was carved in her abdomen. Her body was found clad in night clothes in a spare bedroom. Evidence showed that a footprint which matched the defendant's tennis shoe was found in some of the blood which covered the floor throughout the house. Further, pubic hair which matched the defendant's was found in two of the bedrooms, including the one containing Joan Gormin's body. Large butcher knives were found in the kitchen sink. According to the defendant's testimony, he worked as a dancer and male prostitute and was propositioned by Tom Gormin to perform an act of oral sex for $20. He further testified that during the sexual encounter he fell asleep or passed out and was awakened by Tom Gormin, who was wielding a butcher knife and threatening either castration or death. Wilson claimed he wrestled the knif”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 631 So. 2d 1213 - State v. Wilson