Belk v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Appellant’s proffer of a letter or its .contents into evidence was refused and she raises this as a point on her appeal. The letter was written by appellant’s daughter to a third person and its contents tended to corroborate certain testimony given by appellant and, without question, its contents were favorable both to appellant and to the daughter. The daughter was available to testify but was not called and thus the State would have been deprived of the right to cross examine her as to the letter had the trial judge ruled differently. The daughter was also at the time under a charge of receiving stolen goods and was to be tried separately at another time. This offer was in clear violation of the hearsay rule. For a discussion of it, see 13 Fla. Jur., Evidence, §§ 208, 209 and 210. Our attention has not been directed to any exception to this rule which would be applicable under the circumstance.””

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