Francis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 7 state decisions

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1. “On May 24, 2004, at approximately 10:50 p.m., Marvin Pate and his girlfriend, Pamela Ragland, were sitting in Rag-land’s ear which had been parked on the east side of the 3300 block of Portland Avenue, a one way southbound street in South Minneapolis. Pate got out of the car and was standing by the open front passenger door, talking to Ragland, who was in the driver’s seat. He noticed a blue Chevrolet Tahoe approach from the north and watched as it stopped in front of him. He looked at the Tahoe, trying to see who was driving, and saw Francis in the driver’s seat. Pate then saw Francis, who was 3 or 4 feet away from Pate, raise a gun and begin firing. Pate realized he had been shot, tried to grab the door, and fell to the ground, first to his knees, and then face down. As Pate lay on the ground, he saw the Tahoe, with specialty tire rims and exhaust pipes, speeding away. Law enforcement officers and medical responders arrived within minutes. When asked who shot him, Pate replied, “It was a blue truck.” In the ambulance en route to the hospital, when again asked who shot him, Pate said that it was “Mike.” Pate had been shot in the hip, abdomen, and back, and underwent emergency surgery. Ragland was shot once in the head and died a few hours later. In police interviews at the hospital and later at his home, Pate said that “Mike” shot him, that Mike drove a blue Tahoe with specialty rims, that he and Mike had argued over those rims sometime in February of 2004, and that Mike had”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 669 F. Supp. 2d 970 - Francis v. Fabian

2. “[Petitioner] challenges the seizure of his Tahoe, the jury selection process, the admission of photographic lineup and the admission of “blurry” photographs; he asserts discovery violations, juror misconduct, and the denial of a speedy trial; and he also states that his convictions rest on invalid laws and that consecutive sentencing is in error. After a careful examination of these claims, we find them meritless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 669 F. Supp. 2d 970 - Francis v. Fabian