State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Apparently, Taylor was arrested after a confidential informant's tip implicated him in the shooting death of a 17-yearold Bossier City youth. The body of the victim was found on the west bank of the Red River. He had been shot once in the head and once in the abdomen with .380 caliber bullets. Police recovered from the scene four other spent bullets and casings, three pellets were .380 caliber and one was .25 caliber. Taylor was arrested on February 12, 1984. [Footnote omitted.] Sometime subsequent to the arrest, police searched his home and truck turning up evidence which linked him to the crime.... A Bossier Parish Grand Jury returned a true bill indicting Taylor with first degree murder. Prior to the scheduled date of trial, the state amended the indictment to charge second degree murder. On the day after his arrest, Taylor met with Attorney Randall Fish in the Bossier City Jail. It is not clear who initially contacted Fish. What is clear is at some time after the interview Fish went to Taylor's home and retrieved from the attic a Ceska CZ .380 pistol, later determined to be the murder weapon. Fish took the gun to his office and there it remained until January 20, 1986, approximately one week prior to trial. On that date, police, again tipped by an informant, confronted Fish and he surrendered the weapon. The defense sought to exclude introduction of the gun as well as any and all testimony from Fish concerning the weapon, its location when retrieved or its subsequent disc”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Menard · 502 So. 2d 537 - State v. Taylor

2. “physical evidence connected to the commission of a crime which has been received or recovered by an attorney on account of his representation of a client is not excluded by virtue of the attorney-client privilege.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Menard