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State v. Smith

Citations

  • 485 A.2d 124
  • 145 Vt. 121
  • 1984 Vt. LEXIS 565

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  • setting forth five-part test warranting new trial based on newly discovered evidence, including that “it must appear that the new evidence would probably change the result upon retrial”
  • “The State’s duty to preserve evidence obviously arises only if the State has possession of it.”

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Judges: Billings, Hill, Underwood, Peck, Gibson

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