People v. Collins
California case law overturning a verdict for abuse of the prosecutor's fallacy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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People v. Collins[1] was a 1968 American robbery trial in California noted for its misuse of probability[2] and as an example of the prosecutor's fallacy.[3][4][5]
Quick Facts People v. Collins, Decided March 11, 1968 ...
People v. Collins | |
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Decided March 11, 1968 | |
Full case name | The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Malcolm Ricardo Collins, Defendant and Appellant. |
Citation(s) | 68 Cal. 2d 319 |
Holding | |
A defendant's guilt must be determined by facts of the case; they cannot be determined by mathematical means, such as statistical probability. Judgement reversed. | |
Court membership | |
Chief Justice | Roger J. Traynor |
Associate Justices | Marshall F. McComb, Raymond E. Peters, Mathew Tobriner, Stanley Mosk, Louis H. Burke, Raymond L. Sullivan |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Sullivan, joined by Traynor, Peters, Tobriner, Mosk, Burke |
Dissent | McComb |
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