721 So. 2d 1147 - State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “Parker was convicted of kidnaping, robbery with a firearm, and first-degree murder. Briefly, the testimony at trial reflected the following. In 1982, Parker and three other defendants, John Earl Bush, Alphonso Cave, and Terry Wayne Johnson, robbed a convenience store. Money was taken from the store and the female store clerk (the victim) was also taken from the store and placed in Bush’s car. The victim was later found dead; she had been shot and stabbed. Death was caused by a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Bush’s girlfriend [Georgeann Williams] testified that Parker had admitted to her that he shot the victim and that Bush had stabbed her. The girlfriend’s mother and sister testified that she told them of Parker’s confession. Parker’s pre-trial statements to police regarding the crime were also introduced and Parker also testified at trial. In those statements, he implicated himself in the crimes but denied being the shooter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 89 So. 3d 844 - Parker v. State

2. “This evidence would have assisted in impeaching the testimony of Bush’s girlfriend, which was the sole evidence to show that Parker was the shooter. Further, Parker would have been able to use this evidence to show that the State introduced this evidence in Cave’s resen-tencing to prove that Cave, rather than Parker, was the shooter. Under these circumstances, we must agree with the trial judge’s conclusion that confidence in the jury’s recommendation of death has been undermined, especially given that the jury recommendation for death in Parker’s case was eight-to-four and that codefendant Johnson, who was not identified as the shooter by the State, received a life sentence even though he participated in the crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 89 So. 3d 844 - Parker v. State

3. “The underlying rationale in Green was that the defendant was deprived of a fair trial as to punishment because he was not allowed to introduce evidence that had been used by the State in a codefendant's trial to establish that the codefendant was the one who actually murdered the victim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parker v. State