962 So. 2d 110 - Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Martha Grant testified that she and Jerry Parker, her boyfriend at the time and husband at the time of trial, were washing their vehicles at the Double Quick car wash on Highway 82 in Indianola, Mississippi, on November 9, 2001. Grant’s vehicle, a white Bonneville, was parked in one stall and both Grant and Parker were washing it and the green Maxima, Parker’s vehicle, was parked in the stall next to them. At the time of the carjacking, Parker had asked Grant to get some more change from the Maxi-ma so that they could finish washing the Bonneville. Grant testified that after she retrieved the change from the Maxi-ma, she was approached by Young from behind and as she turned around Young shoved her and said “give me those damn keys.” Grant then testified that Young “snatched them out of her hand ” and she ran to tell Parker what had happened. Grant further testified that the Maxima stalled as Young tried to drive off and she and Parker had a clear view of Young and he was “grinning at them.” According to Grant, she and Parker then got in the Bonneville and pursued the Maxima down Highway 82 toward Greenville and then onto Road 448 going toward Shaw. At some point on 448, the driver of the Maxima turned off the road and parked briefly, but then turned around and met the Bonneville head on and hit the passenger side of the Bonneville before continuing toward Shaw. No one involved was injured. Grant testified that as she and Parker followed the Maxima they shouted to a friend pas”

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

2. “Whoever shall knowingly or recklessly by force or violence, whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, or attempting to do so, or by any other means shall take a motor vehicle from another person’s immediate actual possession shall be guilty of carjacking.”

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