State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “However, in the subject case, the defendant in presenting an alibi defense, took the stand to testify in his own behalf that he did not "mess with guns." Moreover, on cross-examination, when the prosecutor asked the defendant, "Mr. Williams, did you testify you don't have a gun, you don't mess with guns?," the defendant replied, "Correct. I don't own a gun." This evidence, when coupled with the evidence that neither of the victims ever saw a gun, is evidence that the defendant did not have a gun. It was therefore error to give the mandatory presumption instruction in this case.”

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