Warren v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “It appears to us that the evidence was competent for the purpose of showing that the appellant, an interested party, was trying to prevent Dallas from testifying to what Dallas conceived the truth to be, or from testifying to the facts to which he had testified on the former trial; and that his assault on Dallas was an attempt to intimidate a material witness, and prevent his testifying to his conception of the truth. We think the dispute and assault came about by reason of the transaction for which the appellant was tried, and was calculated to influence the witness, either by persuasion or coercion, from testifying in the case for which the appellant was shortly to be tried. In other words, it was an attempt to' suppress material evidence at the approaching trial, and could be shown as a material fact at that trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 174 So. 3d 848 - Bennie Gunn v. State of Mississippi