252 N.C. App. 46 - State v. Hyman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “when a witness is confronted with prior statements that are inconsistent with the witness' testimony, the witness' answers are final as to collateral matters, but where the inconsistencies are material to the issue at hand in the trial, the witness' testimony may be contradicted by other testimony”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hyman

2. “Ms. Smallwood wrote the notes admitted as Defendant's MAR Exhibit 1 contemporaneously with any conversation she had with Speller; that the purported conversation took place on the date appearing on the exhibit, i.e., November 20, 2001; or that the conversation ever took place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hyman

3. “[t]he purpose of our Holloway and Sullivan exceptions from the ordinary requirements of Strickland ... is ... to apply needed prophylaxis in situations where Strickland itself is evidently inadequate to assure vindication of the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hyman