State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “On July 7, 1996, Bridgeport police officers were dispatched to Railroad Avenue regarding a shooting. Upon arrival, the officers were flagged down by pedestrians who directed them to the area of Railroad Avenue and Myrtle Avenue. There, the officers saw several people in the defendant's parked car. The officers noticed that the engine was running, the car's headlights were on and the doors were open. They also saw a male lying on the road behind the car. As the officers existed their patrol car, the defendant exited from the driver's seat, crying. The defendant told the officers that her husband, Charles Jones, who was in the front passenger seat, had been shot by the individual in the rear seat, Kareem Rolle, who also had been shot. There were three shooting victims who were taken to area hospitals, Donald Minton, Rolle and the defendant's husband. Charles Jones and Rolle died from their wounds. The defendant suffered a grazing bullet wound to her right shoulder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 1746 - In Re Jones, No. Cr96-120172 (Feb. 11, 2002)

2. “At trial, the jury heard testimony from James Stephenson, a firearms and tool mark examiner, and Virginia Maxwell, a criminalist, both employed by the state police forensic laboratory. All of the bullets recovered had been fired from the two handguns. One gun had been fired by the defendant. Rolle and Minton also had fired a gun, but Charles Jones had not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 1746 - In Re Jones, No. Cr96-120172 (Feb. 11, 2002)