818 So. 2d 274 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “On the evening of November 4, 1999, Derwin Anear, his girlfriend, Yvonne Barthelemy and Latisha Anear, his niece, were asleep in his trailer. Anear awoke when he heard someone knocking at the door. When he opened the door, three men attacked him. Anear told the | amen that his girlfriend and niece were in the trailer and to leave them alone. At that point, Latisha woke up and heard Anear arguing with someone outside. Latisha ran into the bedroom and woke up Yvonne. One of the men, later identified as Henry Coleman, entered the trailer armed with a gun and told the women to come out into the living area. Latisha told Coleman that Yvonne was pregnant, and he allowed them to sit on the sofa. Coleman asked Yvonne “where were the drugs and money?” She stated that she did not know anything about drugs but that they did have some money that was in the bedroom. She showed Coleman where the money had been hidden. Coleman took the money, approximately six thousand dollars, and walked outside. He returned inside the trailer; then he heard someone say that the police were coming, and all the men left. Shortly thereafter, she heard a gunshot towards the highway. At approximately the same time, Rolen-da Merrick, Anear’s sister who lived next door, heard Anear talking to someone. She heard someone say, “Where it’s at?” She went outside and asked the man, later identified as Ortiz Jackson, what he wanted with her brother. Jackson told her to shut up and stay there. Jackson had a knife at Anc”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jackson · 857 So. 2d 1085 - State v. Coleman

2. “there was no memorandum of understanding between the State and Ancar concerning his testimony in the present case,”

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