State v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “On November 14, 1994, firefighters from Kansas City, Missouri, were sent to a truck fire located at Tenth and Olive. A deceased man, Roderick Morgan, was discovered lying in the seat of a water department truck. He had been shot. Upon opening the truck door, police observed a spent shell easing fall from inside the truck. Kansas City, Missouri, detectives interviewed Bruford Logan who lived near the scene. Mr. Logan reported that he saw a water department truck stop on his street and a blue Cadillac drive up behind it. A tall, slender, brown-skinned man exited the car and went to the water truck. Mr. Logan said he heard three or four shots and saw the man return to the Cadillac and leave. Police obtained seven shell casings from the scene — three on the ground, two on the driver’s seat, one on the victim and one on the truck’s floorboard. A spent bullet was located in the right door interior. Detectives also lifted a latent palm print from the exterior left door above and forward of the chrome handle. A search warrant was executed on November 18, 1994, at Mr. Hudson’s home. Two shell casings were recovered from the driveway of the house. Mr. Hudson’s brother, Claude Hudson, present at the search, explained that the casings were a result of Mr. Hudson’s firing shots into the air. Police analyzed the bullets and shell casings and concluded that the three bullets recovered from the victim and the bullet and casings taken from the truck as well as the two casings from Mr. Hudson’”

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