722 So. 2d 1264 - Acklin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Absent any indication that, in the intervening time between the accident and the time his blood was drawn, Acklin had ingested additional alcohol, proof that Acklin's blood contained alcohol some two or two and a half hours after the accident would necessarily make it "more probable than it would be without the [test result]" that Acklin was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 942 So. 2d 308 - Smith v. State

2. “the Mississippi Supreme Court has made it quite clear that matters regarding the admissibility of evidence in a judicial proceeding are to be decided by judicial rather than legislative pronouncement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 798 So. 2d 609 - Murphy v. State

3. “any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 942 So. 2d 308 - Smith v. State