Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2017
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Caldwell v. Mississippi · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank
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“Alphonso Green lived in a rented duplex apartment with his girlfriend, Cassandra Jones, in Hillsborough County. They rented this apartment from Robert and Dora Nichols. On October 1, 1986, the sheriff posted an eviction notice on Green's apartment. There was a subsequent agreement between Green and the Nicholses that the $250 in back rent would be due on October 10, 1986, or the couple would have to vacate. On the evening of October 10, 1986, Green and Ms. Jones went to the Nicholses' home and paid the $250. Douglas Atkins lived in an apartment adjacent to the Nicholses' home. On the night of October 10, he heard a knock on his window, followed by a loud knocking on the Nicholses' door. Atkins observed a black man, wearing no shoes or shirt. Neither he nor his girlfriend could identify the individual. Atkins went to the nearby home of another neighbor and armed himself. Upon returning, he heard drawers opening and closing in the Nicholses' home. Atkins left again to get the neighbor and, accompanied by the neighbor, went to the Nicholses' home. This time, the home was quiet and the lights were off. They entered and saw Mrs. Nichols lying dead on the floor. The investigating officer, Detective Noblitt, arrived at the Nicholses' home after midnight on October 11, 1986. His testimony reflects that he discovered Mrs. Nichols lying inside the house near the front foyer; that she had been stabbed fourteen times; that Mr. Nichols was lying in the bedroom with bed covers stuffed into”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“After reviewing the record, we cannot say the trial judge abused his discretion in finding that the exercise of these peremptory challenges was racially neutral and not a pretext.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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