Schmitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 2014
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. State · Collins v. State · Ellis v. State · Horan v. State · Fields v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant voluntarily waived his rights, and that the defendant's confession was voluntarily given.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State · Scalissi v. State“When reviewing a challenge to the trial court's decision, we do not reweigh the evidence but instead examine the record for substantial, probative evidence of voluntariness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State · Allen v. State“On the night of March 10, 1998, Erick Schmitt and two friends, Ryan Specht and Michelle Evans, held up the Moto-Mart, a gas station/convenience store located in western Vanderburgh County. Schmitt and Specht performed the robbery while Evans waited outside. Both armed, the two men ran inside the gas station, with Schmitt in the lead. Upon entering, they discovered two people in the store, ... Charlie Simpson, the store clerk, and Brett Tracy, a customer. Schmitt fatally shot Simpson three times in the head and then shot Tracy once in the face. The two then quickly emptied the cash registers and fled the scene. Tipped off by an informant, the police arrested Specht the following day; he confessed his part in the robbery and implicated Schmitt and Evans as accomplices. The police then moved to arrest Schmitt; they read him his Miranda rights, handcuffed him, and placed him in the back of a police vehicle. While Schmitt initially denied any involvement in the murder, upon seeing Specht in the backseat of a different police vehicle, he admitted participating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Specht v. State
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