Buchli v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “Exhibit 134 would have provided Buchli with plausible and persuasive evidence to support his theory of innocence by supporting his theory that he did not have enough time to commit the crime. If believed, this evidence would have established that Buch-li had only three and a half minutes to club Armitage nine times with a blunt object, clean any blood from himself, and get down 13 floors to leave the building. Although the jury was free to believe that Buchli could have done all of these acts in less than four minutes, Buchli conceivably could have used Exhibit 134 to persuade the jury that the "time window” was too brief. Exhibit 134 puts the case in such a different light and "undermine[sj confidence in the verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney v. Prokes

2. “It appears to us ... that the United States Supreme Court would have us ask whether ... the “undisclosed evidence would have been significant to the defendant in the way that he tried his case: Would it have provided him with plausible and persuasive evidence to support his theory of innocence or would it have enabled him to present a plausible, different theory of innocence? If either question can be answered affirmatively, the evidence is material under a Brady analysis.””

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