State v. Furgison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““He [applicant] says the delay of an hour or two in recording serial numbers and in tagging the guns destroys their reliability and renders them inadmissible as evidence against him. He suggests nothing — nor does the record — which might have occurred during this short interval while the weapons were in police custody to alter or change them in any way. In the absence of some showing, any claim they were tampered with would be unreal and fanciful. “Defendant’s present protests go to the weight of the identification evidence, not to its admissibility. We have reviewed the cases relied on by defendant. They do not support his position. There 'was easily enough here to justify the reception of these exhibits and to permit the jury to decide if they were the guns found in defendant’s possession.””

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

2. ““Defendant was apprehended at the scene of a crime immediately after its commission. He. had in his possession property which was later identified as having been stolen from that very place at that very time. We believe the evidence, both direct and circumstantial, is unusually strong in connecting defendant with the crime.””

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