Opinion ID: 3133191
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Recantation Or Reaffirmation

Text: There is no evidence to suggest Bacod recanted or reaffirmed her statement after talking with Detective Huelskoetter, and she died before the evidence of her statement came to light. As already noted, however, Bacod walked back a critical part of her account — namely, that Moore, Richards, Ketzler, and Porterfield intended to assault Sanders — midway through her statement. Although it seems likely that Bacod’s reason for changing her narrative was to protect Ketzler and Porterfield once she learned they had been present at Sanders’s house during the shootings, Bacod’s shift of narrative was indisputably a “partial[] backtrack,”15 as the court puts it, or a partial recantation, as I would put it. For this reason, I would conclude that this factor weighs against finding Bacod’s statement trustworthy.