Bunn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1992
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Starr v. Starr · Peoples v. State · Ex Parte Lowe · 37 Ala. App. 406 - Coleman v. State · 456 So. 2d 1136 - Ex Parte Bryars
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““If it is material to prove that a person at a specified time had been put on notice about a matter, or entertained a specified belief, acted in good or bad faith, had a specified motive to do or not to do an act or to do an act with a specified motive, or was mentally deranged, proof that a statement was made to him prior to the time in question which was reasonably calculated to create, and which is offered for the purpose of showing, notice, belief, good or bad faith, motive or mental derangement is not violative of the hearsay rule. “This same result would be reached under the Federal Rules of Evidence. By definition, no statement is hearsay unless offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted. Consequently, a statement constitutes nonhearsay when, as under the present theory, it is offered to prove the state of mind of the hearer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““For purposes of the record, we expect this witness to testify that he related that message to Patrick Wayne Bunn that his life had been threatened. Patrick Wayne Bunn left only after this threat had been related to him. And we think that explains the reason that he left town, and it should be let into evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The prosecutor's comments ... were confined to the flight of Nelson, Wiggley, and Bunn before the defendant’s arrest, and thus these comments in no way refer to Bunn’s post-arrest silence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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