Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “If a reputation witness need not be able to name particular persons in the community with whom he discussed the reputation of an accused for his testimony to be admissible, it follows that the peace officer who knows their names need not disclose them in order to qualify himself to say what general opinion is commonly held in the community with respect [to] appellant’s reputation. The test of trustworthiness of purported reputation is the extent to which it is generally understood in the community, not reliability of one or more members of the community discussing it with a peace officer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. State