Caw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 283rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cole v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[DCFL] functions independently from any law enforcement body, and its services are available to any person, public or private, corporate or individual, who wishes to pay the lab fees. The chemical analyses are routine procedures, done for whomever requests them. This status, we hold, distinguishes the lab here from the DPS lab in Cole . The [DCFL] is not the inherently adversarial, litigious and prosecution-oriented environment characterized in Cole . It is an autonomous agency, and we hold that the results of its testing need not be viewed with the same caution reserved for law enforcement agencies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Caw v. State · Durham v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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