The Supreme Court reversed on both points. Even assuming portions of the expert testimony crossed the line, Wingate could not show plain error—that the jury probably would have reached a different result without it. The indictment’s factual allegations and the circumstances gave adequate notice despite the incorrect statutory citation.
The Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State. Occupancy, proximity, control of the premises, and Norris’s suspicious movement together supplied incriminating circumstances from which a jury could find constructive possession. The Court reversed and remanded for consideration of remaining appellate issues.
The Nevada Supreme Court held that NRS 52.325 is not the exclusive route for authenticating medical records and ordered a new personal-injury trial after key records and medical-lien evidence were excluded.
The Massachusetts SJC affirmed a first-degree murder conviction, holding that counsel reasonably avoided first-aggressor evidence and that a planned fight did not warrant a sudden-combat instruction.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court preserved trial-judge discretion to allow a detective’s account of a Spanish interview for rebuttal without an English transcript.
The Massachusetts SJC ordered a new murder trial because excluding postarrest psychiatric records stripped the defendant’s criminal-responsibility defense of its medical foundation.
The Utah Court of Appeals affirmed a murder conviction, finding overwhelming evidence that thirteen shots were retaliatory rather than justified defense.
The Utah Court of Appeals vacated an aggravated-assault conviction for insufficient evidence but affirmed sexual-abuse and object-rape convictions.
The Utah Court of Appeals affirmed rape and forcible-sodomy convictions, holding that an ambiguous reference to counsel did not end police questioning.
The Utah Court of Appeals revived negligence claims arising from a bar ejection while affirming sanctions over lost video and an aborted expert deposition.
The Superior Court held that a juvenile’s admission to misdemeanor drug possession did not permit an automatic delinquency adjudication without evidence of a need for treatment, supervision, or rehabilitation.
The Superior Court held that a passenger’s nod and glance toward his waistband, combined with a stolen plate and the surrounding circumstances, gave police reasonable suspicion for a Terry frisk.
The Court of Appeals read the form and surrounding record as showing an effective dismissal only of the habitual-felon matter, not the jury’s assault verdict. The trial court had expressly held sentencing open, so it retained authority to enter judgment on the assault conviction. Evidence that Lofton took a route requiring him to jump a fence and discarded clothing while officers pursued him supported the flight inst
The Court of Appeals found no reversible error. The trial judge acted within the broad discretion used to manage voir dire and questioning, including limited leading questions to a minor testifying about sexual abuse. The panel found no plain error in the challenged evidence and no gross impropriety requiring intervention during argument. Because evidence admitted without reversible error could be discussed in closin
The Court of Appeals upheld denial of suppression. Evidence in plain view could be seized where officers were lawfully present and its evidentiary significance was immediately apparent in the violent-crime investigation then underway. Relying on North Carolina precedent involving later comparison of lawfully obtained genetic material, the panel also held that secondary DNA analysis imposed no new physical intrusion a
The Superior Court preserved nursing-home negligence liability but ordered a new compensatory-damages trial and vacated punitive damages against operating entities.
The Superior Court held that Greenlight app transaction screenshots were machine-generated data rather than hearsay and upheld a juvenile theft adjudication.
The Superior Court upheld a caretaker’s convictions for theft by deception and financial exploitation of an older adult based on checks obtained beyond her agreed compensation.
The Superior Court held that towing a stolen truck, without evidence the driver knew it was stolen before police stopped him, did not establish a prima facie case of receiving stolen property.
The Massachusetts SJC affirmed a first-degree murder conviction after finding four alleged investigative failures did not undermine the verdict.
The Utah Court of Appeals held that sufficient evidence supported a fatal negligent-driving conviction and that any speeding-instruction error was harmless.
The Utah Court of Appeals declined to overrule State v. Heath and affirmed object-rape and sexual-abuse convictions against evidentiary and due-process challenges.
The Utah Supreme Court affirmed child-sex-abuse convictions after finding waiver, inadequate preservation, and no deficient performance across multiple trial challenges.
The Massachusetts SJC held that a court seal and clerk’s stamped signature do not replace a written attestation that a docket copy is accurate.