Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “A petitioner may, at any time, file a petition before the trial court that entered the judgment of conviction in his or her case for the performance of fingerprint or forensic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing on evidence that was secured in relation to the trial which resulted in his or her conviction but which was not subject to the testing that is now requested because the technology for the testing was not available at the time of trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gregory Joseph Nelson v. State

2. “They both testified to seeing a man in the store before they left, but at trial they did not identify Fields as being that man. Rather, they gave general descriptions of the man and his clothing, and those descriptions did not match Fields. In their affidavits, they basically recount their trial testimony and state that Fields did not look like the man they saw.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Zane Jack Fields v. State of Idaho