345 So. 2d 474 - State v. Ledet’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Smith (1983), 372 So. 2d 1024 - State v. Hatcher (1979)
56 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · Hills v. Henderson · 278 So. 2d 781 - State v. Moore · 340 So. 2d 1353 - State v. Frederick · 340 So. 2d 1294 - State v. Gaines
Most-quoted passages
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“* * * Because of the substantial risk that the extraneous evidence may detract from the constitutional right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crime charged, other crimes can only be admitted after a `showing by the State that the evidence of other crimes is not merely repetitive and cumulative, is not a subterfuge for depicting the defendant's bad behavior, and that it serves the actual purpose for which offered.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * proof of system simply is not relevant in a case such as this one where there is absolutely no question that the accused was the person involved in both incidents. The entire point of the state's establishing that a `system' existed is to show that because of the unique aspects of an extraneous crime committed by the accused that he must have been the perpetrator of the crime at issue because it, too, was marked by the same distinctive hallmarks. However, when there is no contest at all over the participation of the accused in the alleged incident, but the only question is whether any crime at all took place, evidence of extraneous offenses serves only to establish that defendant is capable of and thus likely to have committed the crime in question, and as such the evidence is inadmissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“nonetheless excluded, not because it fails to tend to prove the defendant's guilt, but because it does it too well and thereby deprives the `bad man' of the fair trial and benefit of the presumption of innocence and the State's burden of proof. However, when the extraneous offense is logically relevant to prove a material issue before the jury and is not merely offered to prove that on this occasion the accused probably acted in conformity with his `criminal disposition, then the evidence should not be excluded merely because it shows that the accused has committed other offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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