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McDANIEL  v.  BROWN 

Per Curiam 

I 

Around  1  a.m.  on  January  29,  1994,  9-year-old  Jane  Doe 
was brutally raped in the bedroom of her trailer.  Respond­
ent  Troy  Brown  was  convicted  of  the  crime.  During  and 
since his trial, respondent has steadfastly maintained his in­
nocence.1  He  was,  however,  admittedly  intoxicated  when 
the  crime  occurred,  and  after  he  awoke  on  the  following 
morning he told a friend “ ‘he wished that he could remember 
what did go on or what went on.’ ”  App. 309. 

Troy and  his brother Travis  resided near Jane Doe  in the 
same trailer park.  Their brother Trent and his wife Raquel 
lived  in  the  park  as  well,  in  a  trailer  across  the  street  from 
Jane  Doe’s.  Both  Troy  and  Trent  were  acquainted  with 
Jane Doe’s family; Troy had visited Jane Doe’s trailer several 
times.  Jane  did  not  know  Travis.  The  evening  of  the  at­
tack,  Jane’s  mother,  Pam,  took  Jane  to  Raquel  and  Trent’s 
trailer  to  babysit  while  the  three  adults  went  out  for  about 
an hour.  Raquel and Trent returned at about 7:30 p.m. and 
took  Jane  home  at  about  9:30  p.m.  Pam  stayed  out  and 
ended  up  drinking  and  playing  pool  with  Troy  at  a  nearby 
bar  called  the  Peacock  Lounge.  Troy  knew  that  Jane  and 
her  4-year-old  sister  were  home  alone  because  he  answered 
the phone at the bar when Jane called for her mother earlier 
that evening. 

Troy consumed at least 10 shots of vodka followed by beer 
chasers, and was so drunk that he vomited on himself while 
he  was  walking  home  after  leaving  the  Peacock  at  about 
12:15 a.m.  Jane called her mother to report the rape at ap­
proximately  1  a.m.  Although  it  would  have  taken  a  sober 
man less than 15 minutes to walk home, Troy did not arrive 
at  his  trailer  until  about  1:30  a.m.  He  was  wearing  dark 
jeans,  a  cowboy  hat,  a  black  satin  jacket,  and  boots.  Two 

1 He denied involvement when a police ofﬁcer claimed (wrongly) that the 
police  had  found  his  ﬁngerprints  in  Jane’s  bedroom,  and  he  even  denied 
involvement  when  the  sentencing  judge  told  him  that  acceptance  of  re­
sponsibility would garner him leniency.