169 Conn. App. 689 - State v. Beverley’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Relevant evidence is evidence that has a logical tendency to aid the trier in the determination of an issue.... One fact is relevant to another if in the common course of events the existence of one, alone or with other facts, renders the existence of the other either more certain or more probable.... Evidence is irrelevant or too remote if there is such a want of open and visible connection between the evidentiary and principal facts that, all things considered, the former is not worthy or safe to be admitted in the proof of the latter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 Conn. App. 784 - State v. Day

2. “[t]he sixth amendment to the [United States] constitution guarantees the right of an accused in a criminal prosecution to confront the witnesses against him.... The primary interest secured by confrontation is the right to cross-examination ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 40 - State v. Jackson