State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “1) [Defendant credibly denied any memory of her statement to Sergeant Freichels; 2) defendant had testified without having had the opportunity to refresh her memory by listening to the tape; 3) defendant’s taped statement both supported and contradicted testimony of both the defendant and the other witnesses; 4) to have gone forward with the trial without using the tape would have deprived both parties of crucial and significant evidence supporting their respective cases; 5) to have gone forward with the trial with the tape being played for the jury would have unfairly prejudiced the defendant because regardless of any further explanation or instruction, the jury would have been left with the impression that the defendant had lied in her earlier testimony — thus injecting, unfairly, a new element into the jury’s deliberations. The Court was faced with a classic “catch-22”.”

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