People v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “"Silence, when the assertion of another person would naturally call for a dissent if it were untrue, may be equivalent to an assent to the assertion. This, however, fixes the party, by adoption, with the other person's assertion, and thus it ceases to be a question of conduct evidence, and involves a genuine admission in express words. " [ McReavy, supra at 213 , 462 N.W.2d 1 , quoting 2 Wigmore, Evidence (Chadbourn rev.), §292, pp. 229-230 (emphasis added).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Solmonson

2. “McReavy further explained that Bigge precludes admissibility of a defendant's failure to say anything in the face of an accusation as an adoptive or tacit admission under MRE 801(d)(2)(B) unless the defendant `manifested his adoption or belief in its truth....' Id. We reiterated this understanding in People v. Hackett, 460 Mich. 202, 213 , 596 N.W.2d 107 (1999), in which we noted that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Redd

3. “[a]lthough Bigge preceded the enactment of the Michigan Rules of Evidence, the rule of Bigge , like MRE 801(d)(2)(B), concerns tacit admissions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Redd