William Hill
When William Hill was arrested possessing 55 plastic bags containing white powder, the severity of Hill’s offense depended on the amount of cocaine he possessed. Government chemists picked three bags at random, tested them, and found that they all contained cocaine. If the bags had been pills in a bottle it has been held permissible to presume, based on a random sample, that they all contained cocaine.
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 People v. Kaludis, 497 N.E. 2d 360 (1996).
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 People v. Hill, 524 N.E.2d 604 (1998).
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Financial Information, Inc. v. Moody’s Investors, 751 F.2d 501 (2d Cir. 1984), aff’d after remand, 808 F.2d 204 (2d Cir. 1986).
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No. 3-94-0090 (M.D. Tenn. 1994).
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874 F.2d 307 (5th Cir. 1989).
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Id. at 312 (emphasis in original).
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Finkelstein, M.O. (2009). Confidence. In: Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b105519_1_6
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