Brown v. Hoffmeister

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discouraging the technical application of court rules and noting that Rule 98 “provides no sanction for failure to comply with its terms”
• judge at first trial excluded late-disclosed confession, and judge at retrial allowed confession into evidence only during cross-examination and rebuttal
• trial court has broad discretion in balancing the prejudicial effect of evidence against its probative value
• absent contemporaneous objection, untimely request for jury instructions does not give notice to the court necessary to preserve an issue addressed by the requested instruction
• “No rule or case in this State binds a second judge to a previous trial judge’s [] ruling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).