Washington Supreme Court· 9/19/1991

State v. Blair

Citations

816 P.2d 718
117 Wash. 2d 479
1991 Wash. LEXIS 366

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holding that the missing witness doctrine applied when defendant failed to call witnesses from what the State alleged were crib notes, but defendant testified were lists of personal loans
holding a prosecutor may comment on defendant's failure to call particular witnesses under the missing witness doctrine
holding prosecution may argue that booklets seized from defendant with handwritten notations and numbers were a ledger of his drug dealings if defendant could have introduced witnesses to the contrary
“missing witness doctrine [is] applicable where the inference was drawn based on defendant’s failure to call a particular witness”
missing witness inference is inappropriate if witness’s absence is satisfactorily explained
enumerating instances in which a missing witness doctrine does not apply

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Judges: Brachtenbach

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