Faust v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Appellant and the victim, Kathy Bond, lived together. He was unemployed while the victim held two jobs. On midnight of October 23, 19.90, appellant returned home from an evening of drinking. Appellant awakened the sleeping victim and a heated argument ensued. When the victim began hitting appellant, he became angry, turned her on her stomach and sat on her. In his state ment to police, reciting the facts above, appellant did not mention strangling the victim. However, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on the victim said the cause of death was manual strangulation. Again, according to the appellant’s statement, when.he discovered the victim was dead he wrapped her in a sheet, tied both ends, took her to the basement of the building, and placed her body in a storage room. In the morning, the janitor went to the basement and noticed the victim’s body. In the meantime, the victim’s employer had made inquiry concerning her absence from work. Police Officer Shinneman responded to the dispatch and arrived at the apartment about the same time the janitor found the victim’s body. Appellant was taken to the police station where he first told police that he had spent the evening in Panda’s Tavern where he met a prostitute with whom he spent the night. However, when police informed him that Panda’s Tavern had been destroyed six months previously, appellant broke down and stated, “I didn’t mean to kill her.” He then gave a videotaped statement to police in which he detailed his co”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 52 F. Supp. 2d 930 - Faust v. Anderson