State v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"Defendant’s subsequent reliance on [Wer-dell] is therefore misplaced. In Werdell, the defendant disposed of a gun that constituted evidence linking his son to the commission of a felony of which the police were unaware. At the time the defendant disposed of the evidence, his son was in police custody for an unrelated crime. The Supreme Court rejected the state’s proposed extension of the statute to cover the 'suppress[ion] of evidence that might have aided in the discovery of the fact that such a person had committed a crime.’ 340 Or. at 595-96 , 136 P.3d 17 (emphasis in original). The focus of that decision was the misapplication of the word ‘discovery’ in ORS 162.325(l)(e) to the fact that a knovrn person has committed an unknown felony rather than to the identity of an unknown person who has committed a felony of which the police are already aware. Id. at 596-97, 136 P.3d 17 , This case involves exactly the sort of situation to which the statute does apply, according to the Supreme Court in Wer- dell—the concealment of evidence that would aid in the discovery of the person who committed a felony.””

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