Lance David Bean v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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1. “'examine and accept as true the State's evidence and all reasonable inferences which can be drawn from it.' " Villarreal v. State , 2017 WY 81 , ¶ 26, 398 P.3d 512 , 520 (Wyo. 2017) (quoting Bean v. State , 2016 WY 48 , ¶ 44, 373 P.3d 372 , 386 (Wyo. 2016) ). "We disregard any evidence that conflicts with the State's evidence.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Larkins v. State · Hyatt v. State

2. “from this perspective because we defer to the jury as the fact-finder and assume they believed only the evidence adverse to the defendant since they found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Danell Blevins v. State · Hyatt v. State

3. “the genetic information recovered from epithelial (skin) cells left behind when a person makes contact with an object. During the commission of a crime, an assailant can leave touch DNA samples behind ... on a victim’s clothing or other items implicated in the crime. Touch DNA testing uses the same... technology used to test more traditional sources of DNA—blood, semen, saliva, and other bodily fluids—to test recovered epithelial cells. The difference between “traditional” DNA testing—the testing of bodily fluids—and touch DNA testing is that material from which the DNA is collected, not the method by which the DNA sample is analyzed.”

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