99 So. 3d 189 - Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The facts are in dispute as to what occurred once Young arrived. At trial, eyewitnesses testified that Young ap proached Morgan as he was standing in the carport and stated, “You just going to come over here and disrespect me and f— my wife,” before immediately shooting Morgan. However, Young testified that after he spoke to Morgan, Morgan turned around and said, “F— you,” and pulled a gun on Young, which prompted Young to shoot Morgan in self-defense. Young was the only witness to claim that Morgan had a gun in his hand before Young shot him. The eyewitnesses who were outside in the carport or on the front porch all testified that Morgan was holding empty ice bags, had no weapon in his hands, and was not reaching for a weapon prior to being shot. However, the witnesses did say that they saw a gun lying near Morgan’s body after the shooting when he fell to the ground. Some of the witnesses said that the gun fell out of Morgan’s pocket as we was being turned over by family members to check his pulse. Others said that they only saw the gun after Morgan was turned over and did not know how it came to be lying next to Morgan.”

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   e.g. Young v. State

2. “Q: And at that time, I was questioning you about whether you told police if Mr. Young — I mean, Mr. Morgan, you saw him with a gun. You recall that? A: Yes, sir. Q: And at that time, did you not say that you saw your dad with a gun in his hand? A: It was after he fell. Like he was on the ground; that’s when I saw the gun. Q: Okay. You did not recall telling me, when I was questioning you at that time, that the gun was in your dad’s hand when you came to the door? A: No, sir. I was talking about Lonnie [Young], I call both of them my dads. Q: Okay. Fair enough. In that questioning, that statement, you did say— you said Lonnie [Young] came up and you went and said: My daddy. A: “My daddy,” that’s Lonnie [Young]. I call both of them my daddy. Both of them are my dads.”

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   e.g. Young v. State

3. “[T]otally disregard the facts that occurred up to the confrontation. Specifically, that Mr. Young laid in wait and planned, waiting on Mr. Morgan, for him to arrive at this house for him to be confronted. He armed himself with a weapon. He knew there was going to be trouble. He testified that they had not had any argument, no dispute that day or any day prior to that. It was all based on something that happened three or four years earlier. So for me to give, basically, [the imperfect-self-defense jury instruction] would be to totally disregard all of those facts.”

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