105 N.C. App. 122 - State v. Suddreth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2021
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schmerber v. State of California · Holt v. United States · State v. Smith · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Coffey
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“Based on my experiences with hairs that I have examined, the characteristics I have seen in this hair it is certainly better than one out of a hundred, and my estimation is close to one out of a thousand. Meaning, if you pick an individual at random off the street, there is only one out of a thousand chance that the unknown hair would match or would also be consistent with that person's hair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the expert did not venture beyond his area of expertise, the testimony did not constitute a positive identification, and the trial court's instructions prevented the jury from reaching a decision based solely on the hair analysis testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exhibited all the same macroscopic and microscopic characteristics, and it is quite likely to have originated from Keith Suddreth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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