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· 2/15/2022

City of Maryland Heights v. State of Missouri

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  • distinguishing Fourth Amendment case law and stating that, under Article I, section 9, police activities that exceed what is reasonably necessary to effectuate the investigation require an independent constitutional justification
  • “Although an error occurred in the trial court, we will affirm if there is little likelihood that the particular error affected the verdict.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
  • where unchallenged tes- timony already made clear that defendant was not being entirely truthful or forthright, statement implicated by the trial court’s error that could support the same inference was cumulative
  • in evaluating whether evidentiary error was Cite as 373 Or 213 (2025) 237 harmless, looking to whether the parties’ arguments com- municated that erroneously admitted statements “were not considered significant by either party”
  • in evaluating whether evidentiary error was Cite as 373 Or 213 (2025) 237 harmless, looking to whether the parties’ arguments com- municated that erroneously admitted statements “were not considered significant by either party”
  • identify- ing that ground for not reaching a plain error

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Judges: All concur. Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson

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