Williams v. Quarterman’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate ·

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1. “On May 13, 1992, Williams, his friend Vaal Guevara, and Guevara’s friend Elaine Winn, went to Adonius Collier’s apartment to arrange a drug transaction. Collier, his friend Ammade Rasul, and Rasul’s girlfriend, Stephanie Anderson, met with Williams, Guevara, and Winn. They agreed to complete the transaction at a nearby park. The participants all went to the park in several vehicles. The Government alleged at trial that Williams carried a .25-caliber pistol and a shotgun hidden in his clothing while Guevara carried a .22-caliber pistol. Upon arriving at the park, Williams, Guevara, Rasul, and Collier went into the woods to conduct the drug transaction. The remaining participants stayed in the cars. During the course of the drug transaction, gunfire erupted. Rasul testified that Williams shot him once in the face with the pistol and that he suffered a bullet wound in the foot as he ran toward the parking lot. Forensic testimony proffered at trial linked the bullet from Rasul’s foot to Williams’s .25-cali-ber pistol. Rasul and Anderson sought medical attention for Rasul’s injuries, and Anderson reported the shooting to a Houston police officer. Thereafter, the police- investigated the park and found Collier’s dead body. Collier had suffered a shotgun wound to the head. The medical examiners who performed Collier’s autopsy recovered some shotgun pellets from Collier’s cranial cavity and a spent and mutilated bullet, which was marked as “EB-1.” Winn, Anderson, and another person, ”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. Thaler · 459 F. App'x 327 - Nanon Williams v. Rick Thaler, Director

2. “a state habeas trial court's factual findings do not survive review by the [TCCA] where they [are] neither adopted nor incorporated into the appellate court's peremptory denial of relief”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Davis · Murphy v. Davis

3. “even if the state appellate court reached a different legal conclusion when applying the law to those facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Murphy v. Davis