375 N.J. Super. 409 - State v. Behn’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · State v. Carter · State v. Marshall · Karim-Panahi v. Commissioner · Texas v. New Mexico
Most-quoted passages
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“based on erroneous scientific foundations and its admission met the requirements for granting a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence.” Id. at 331-32. Moreover, the court noted that the assumption that the chemical composition of a bullet from one batch will never match that of a bullet from a different batch has”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There , is no doubt that the information at issue, the results of the studies by Randich, Tobin and others, was newly discovered since it was not developed until after defendant’s trial. Clearly, such new scientific evidence may constitute newly discovered evidence.... ... Whatever any other experts, including those mentioned [in other CBLA cases], might have been able to say on the subject, none could have refuted Peters’ testimony in the way that Randich and his colleagues could, since the basis for the impeachment did not exist in April 1995 when defendant’s trial was conducted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“During the research of my colleagues and I ... of the practice of CABL, we found no meaningful or comprehensive studies validating inferences rendered by bullet lead examiners in criminal trials relating to “same melt,” “same box’ “same source,” or other conclusions as to common origins regarding allegedly analytically indistinguishable bullet lead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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