800 So. 2d 174 - Hoffman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “[w]hether Hoffman was in fact in that motel room was an important issue that the jury had to resolve. Therefore, any evidence tending to either prove or disprove this fact would be highly probative. Hair evidence found in the victim’s clutched hand could tend to prove recent contact between the victim and a person present in that room at the time of her death. With the evidence excluding Hoffman as the source of the clutched hair, defense counsel could have strenuously argued that the victim was clutching the hair of her assailant, but that assailant was not Hoffman. [[Image here]] ... [Ujnder the circumstances of this case, where another person has also confessed to the crime, the State should have disclosed that information to the defense. There is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the jury heard that another suspect had confessed and the hair in the victim’s hand did not belong to Hoffman.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 854 So. 2d 1255 - Allen v. State · 51 So. 3d 480 - Mazzara v. State

2. “to disclose to the defendant all information in its possession that is exculpatory”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 854 So. 2d 1255 - Allen v. State