767 So. 2d 1072 - Gavin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2002
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McFee v. State · Foster v. State · 517 So. 2d 1346 - Lockett v. State · Carr v. State · 691 So. 2d 918 - Collins v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he trial court's discretion must be exercised within the scope of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence and reversal will be appropriate only when an abuse of discretion resulting in prejudice to the accused occurs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence having 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“did not bear on the criminal case brought by the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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