Hart v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 215 Ill. App. 3d 413 - People v. Lipscomb · State v. Schwartz · Partin v. Commonwealth · Stringer v. Commonwealth · Baze v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“would require us to assume that there was a substantial possibility the jury would have reached a different verdict if the evidence had not been excluded. We decline to engage in such guesswork without the actual evidence before us. “Without an avowal, or a crystal ball, reviewing courts can never know with any certainty what a given witness’s response to a question would have been if the trial court had allowed them to answer. Appellate courts review records; they do not have crystal balls.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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