Porterfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “In [the] first conversation [ie., the un-taped conversation in which Michele Port-erfield first informed Knight that she and Porterfield had killed a man,] and in the following taped conversations, there was no apparent reason for [Michele] Porter-field to fabricate her admissions.... Even though [Michele] Porterfield's account implicated [her husband Todd] Porterfield in the arson and murder, Judge Pengilly found that there was no indication that Mrs. Porterfield minimized her own role or tried to shift blame to Porterfield. Mrs. Porterfield had no reason to believe that her statements to Knight would curry any favor with the police or the State becausel, as] Judge Pengilly found{,] she had no reason to anticipate [that her] statements would be relayed to law enforcement.”

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   e.g. Porterfield v. State