Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1992
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Yarber · 375 So. 2d 1271 - Jackson v. State · 375 So. 2d 1257 - Williams v. State · Yarber v. State · 411 So. 2d 819 - Slaughter v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he evidence need not negate the most remote possibility of substitution, alteration, or tampering with the evidence, but rather must prove to a reasonable probability that the item is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object as it existed at the beginning of the chain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the chain of custody is found, weight and credit afforded the evidence, rather than its admissibility, are questioned; however, where a break or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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