Jade Anderson v. Tina Hornbeck

MEMORANDUM *

Jade Anderson took a wallet and cell phone from a man her companion had choked into unconsciousness and — unbeknownst to her — fatally injured. Towards the end of a twelve-hour interrogation, she admitted that she took the items while the victim was still alive. On this basis, she was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. Without her own inculpatory statements, the evidence would not even have supported a charge of robbery, but only one of theft. In her habeas petition, Anderson argues that her inculpatory statements should have been…