State v. George’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “[E]ven if the testing of the hairs found at the spot where the rape occurred only revealed that George's DNA was not present, the results would be exculpatory because they would 'tend' to disprove his guilt. At a minimum, they would tend to show he had not been at that spot. . . . That this potentially exculpatory evidence may be of very little evidentiary value does not matter at this stage.”

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

2. “The reason the DNA testing in this case has an ever-so-slight tendency to demonstrate George is not the perpetrator of this crime is [] because . . . the evidence— i.e., the only hairs found in the entire large, publicly accessible storeroom which also just happened to have been found at the precise location of the crime—creates the possibility of doubt as to the identity of the perpetrator.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Angelo

3. “[w]e have defined that term's opposite, i.e., cumulative evidence, as 'evidence of the same kind to the same point, and whether it is cumulative is to be determined from its kind and character, rather than its effect.'”

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