People v. Burwick’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Rules that provide for pretrial discovery of an opponent’s witnesses serve the same high purpose [as rules enforcing the right to cross-examine]. Discovery, like cross-examination, minimizes the risk that a judgment will be predicated on incomplete, misleading, or even deliberately fabricated testimony. The “State’s interest in protecting itself against an eleventh hour defense” is merely one component of the broader public interest in full and truthful disclosure of critical facts. [Taylor v Illinois, 484 US 400, 411-412 (1988).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Yost