Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[Ajppellant was neither charged with, nor tried for, the murder of Charles Whalin; he was tried solely as a party to the murder of Sophie Whalin. Although the murder of Charles Whalin was a transactional part of, and indivisibly connected to, the murder of Sophie Whalin, thereby making the testimony of his murder admissible to explain the context of the offense for which appellant was on trial, neither the testimony concerning his autopsy, nor the autopsy photographs, had any logical relationship to the consequential fact of appellant’s intent to murder Sophie Whalin. In view of the ample evidence to establish appellant’s culpability for the murder of Sophie Wha-lin, ... the evidence would not have been less persuasive by the exclusion of [the autopsy doctor’s] testimony and the photographs of Charles Whalin.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barber v. State