Turner v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Had the petitioner been able to cross-examine the witnesses about the prior robberies, he could have explored similarities between the modus operandi of those robberies and the conduct of the March 25, 1974 robbery. Wallace and Evans may have exhibited unusual behavior in the 1973 robberies duplicated by the 1974 robbers, see generally, Commonwealth v. Murphy, 1933, 282 Mass. 593, 597-99, (185 N.E. 486,) or there may have been significant similarities in the warnings given to the store clerks on each occasion. Indeed petitioner was unable even to determine what type of gun had been used in the prior robberies so that he might compare it with the gun used in the 1974 robbery.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. Fair

2. “(P)etitioner . . . advanc(ed) the same arguments (in his petition for habeas relief) that he urged before the Supreme Judicial Court. We find, therefore, that petitioner has exhausted his state remedies with respect to each of his claims.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. Fair

3. “sought not so much to impeach the general credibility of the witnesses”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. Fair