McKissack v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"With respect to the testimony of the coroner, the indictment contained in the record reflects that the coroner did not testify before the grand jury; the only witness listed on the indictment is the police investigator. Therefore, even if, as the majority holds, the trial court erred in denying [McKissack's] motion to have the coroner's testimony during the grand jury proceedings recorded, that error was not reversible; it was, at most, harmless. "Moreover, although the focus of [McKissack's] argument on appeal appears to be on the coroner, to the extent he is also arguing that the grand jury testimony of the investigator should have been recorded, I disagree with the majority's conclusion that [McKissack] `established that there was a genuine concern that there could be inconsistencies between the grand jury testimony and the trial testimony of the . . . investigator.' At the hearing on [McKissack's] motion to have the grand jury proceedings recorded, [McKissack's] sole argument regarding the investigator was that he had lied during his testimony at the preliminary hearing. According to [McKissack's] counsel, the investigator testified at the preliminary hearing that he had gone to the scene of the crime and searched it with a metal detector in an attempt to find shell casings, but was unable to find any. Counsel asserted that she, too, had gone to the crime scene, and that because the grass at the scene was between three and five feet tall, she believed `there was no way' ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 926 So. 2d 367 - McKissack v. State

2. “established that there was a genuine concern that there could be inconsistencies between the grand jury testimony and the trial testimony of . . . the investigator.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 926 So. 2d 367 - McKissack v. State