433 So. 2d 1263 - Ashley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “We construe the allegations in petitioner’s application and the attached affidavit to mean that officers of the Jacksonville sheriffs office disregarded the circuit court’s directions to find Loggie, persuaded Loggie to remain outside Florida at the critical time of petitioner’s trial, and withheld information known to such officers which would have informed petitioner both where and how to reach Loggie. This alleged misconduct would clearly violate petitioner’s constitutional rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments if the requisite materiality of Loggie’s testimony were shown and would require the trial judge to set aside the conviction and order a new trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 479 So. 2d 837 - Ashley v. State