Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · 430 So. 2d 832 - Read v. State · 697 So. 2d 777 - Coleman v. State · 351 So. 2d 1342 - Gray v. State · Brown v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Absent some accompanying expert interpretive testimony, [evidence of such] is, to the average layman, essentially meaningless insofar as it touches on [the victim’s] observation and recall abilities. It, therefore, fails the test for “relevant evidence” set out in [Rule] 401 and is, therefore, rendered inadmissable by Rule 402. 20”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferguson v. State
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