State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Dee Ernest testified that she is a registered pharmacist, employed at the Gem Drug Store in Columbia, Missouri. At about 10:30 a.m. on April 26, 1980, she received a telephone call from someone who stated that they were calling from the office of Dr. Domann, and that they were sending a prescription for 100 Dilaudid pills in the name of Mark Matte-son_ At about 5:30 p.m., a person identified in court as appellant came into the Gem store and handed Donna Morrow a prescription purportedly from Dr. Domann's office and signed by him for one Mark Matteson. Donna called Dee and gave her the prescription. Dee took down appellant’s address, looked over the prescription, and told him that it might take a little bit of time because the computer was new. Appellant asked Dee if he was in the right drugstore, and if someone had called concerning this prescription for his uncle, Mark Matte-son. Dee excused herself and went into the back office where she called the police, who arrived a few minutes later.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Armontrout