Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “... Such testimony was utterly irrelevant to the issue before the jury, which was the guilt or innocence of the appellant of the crime of murder. The witness was not on trial, and it was incompetent to attempt to impeach her veracity by general proof of her unchastity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Blair v. State