Bearden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Jones v. State · 753 So. 2d 29 - Rodriguez v. State · 689 So. 2d 259 - Morton v. State · 942 So. 2d 415 - Johnson v. State
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“The murder victim was a young man named Ryan Skipper. On March 14, 2007, his body was found on the side of Morgan Road in the Wahneta area — he had been stabbed to death. The evidence at trial reflected that on March 13, 2007, Skipper left home in his car after taking a telephone call at 11:10 p.m. Shortly thereafter, he encountered Bearden, who was walking on the side of the road. Skipper picked up Bearden and drove a few blocks to J.T. Brown’s home. While Skipper waited outside, Bearden went inside and unsuccessfully attempted to trade a used laptop computer for drugs. Present in the residence were J.T. Brown, Ray Allen Brown (J.T.’s son), John Kirchoff (who was temporarily living there), and William Brown (J.T.’s nephew). All four of these men were methamphetamine users. The events that followed Skipper and Bearden’s arrival at the Brown residence led to Skipper’s murder. And there was no question that William Brown wielded the knife used to kill Skipper. [n-2] But, as discussed below, Bearden’s conviction hinged on whether the jury accepted his version of the events as reflected in his pretrial statement [n-3] or the version testified to by J.T., Ray Allen, and Kirchoff at trial. Bearden’s version implicated William and Ray Allen in the murder; J.T., Ray Allen, and Kirchoffs version implicated William and Bearden. [N.2.] William Brown was tried and convicted of the first-degree murder of Skipper. His appeal is currently pending in this court under case number 2D 10-74. [N”
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