469 So. 2d 210 - Price v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “A mistrial was declared at defendant's first trial and he was retried. At the first trial a witness, Sonya Lee Whitlow Miller, testified that she had not received quaaludes from the defendant. At the second trial the State called Ms. Miller and she testified that defendant gave her two quaaludes from a certain bag. Over the objection of defense counsel the trial court then permitted the state attorney to further question the witness to bring to the attention of the second jury that the witness had made a prior inconsistent statement at the first trial, that the prior sworn statement was not true and that the witness had made the prior untrue statement because one James Elliot had twice threatened the witness to the effect that if the witness ever told the truth about anything against the defendant, the witness would be shot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 491 So. 2d 536 - State v. Price

2. “The State “anticipates” impeachment of its own witness by the defense at the State’s peril because the option is always with the defense to impeach or not. The defense often quite reasonably does not impeach a particular witness because the defense knows that the evidence that the State is entitled to present on rehabilitation of its witness will be much more harmful to the defense than any benefit derived from an impeachment of that witness. In addition, in such circumstances the State is always vulnerable to the assertion by the defense counsel that he was going to forego impeachment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 481 So. 2d 19 - Lawhorne v. State

3. “evidence was highly prejudicial and harmful and its admissibility was objected to and constitutes reversible error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 491 So. 2d 536 - State v. Price