51 Ala. App. 540 - Dolvin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36
cited by 36 later decisions
1
states following
April 1987
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. State · Nichols v. State · 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · 49 Ala. App. 233 - Thigpen v. State · Johnson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"... we do not deem the constitutional right to compulsory process in a criminal case to operate in such a manner as to compel pretrial discovery as to who in fact are witnesses for the State. Rather, the law assumes that defense counsel will act with due diligence so as to have such witnesses as necessary available at trial. Then, by way of compulsory process for obtaining such witnesses, the defendant is secured of a proper presentation of his case at trial...."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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