145 Ill. App. 3d 71 - People v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 168 Ill. 2d 509 - People v. Coleman (1995), State v. Canaan (1998)
37 state decisions
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Relationships
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Most-quoted passages
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“All of the experts here agree that gastric analysis may not be used to state a precise time of death or to state a narrow range of time during which death occurred. The experts agreed that there was dispute in the scientific community as to how useful gastric analysis is in determining a time of death. However, the state's experts, Davis and Baden, did not state a precise time of death, but they posited a range of time during which death occurred. The defendant's experts stated the range was too narrow and variables precluded correlating digestion and gastric emptying with a specific time frame. Baden and Davis stated that, in the instant case, the average range applied because variables, which ordinarily might retard digestion, could be eliminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Davis also explained the basic process of digestion. He pointed out that many factors can affect digestion: severe emotional trauma, strenuous exercise, and some physical diseases may delay digestion. Davis testified that digestion stops at death. He stated that the pizza eaten by the children would have been completely digested within 3 to 4 hours of consumption. It was Davis' opinion that the children died after 8:30 p.m. but before 11:30 p.m.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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