156 Mich. App. 717 - People v. Wackerle’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[A]ttempts to avoid a trial, to evade conviction by frauds upon the law, or to lead suspicion and investigation in some other direction by false or covert suggestions or insinuations, are so unlike the conduct of innocent men that they are justly regarded as giving some evidence of a consciousness of guilt. They do not prove it, but the jury are entitled to consider and weigh them in connection with the more direct evidence. [ People v. Arnold, 43 Mich. 303, 305-306 , 5 N.W. 385 (1880).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 216 Mich. App. 367 - People v. Mooney