de la Croix v. Villere

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the military judge’s instructions to members on the proper use of testimony could have resolved M.R.E. 403 issues
• concluding that an error was harmless in part because the Court was “confident that the members— using their common sense and everyday experiences—placed this evidence in a proper perspective and did not afford it substantial weight”
• concluding that an error was harmless in part because the court was “confident that the members-- using their common sense and everyday experiences--placed this evidence in a proper perspective and did not afford it substantial weight”
• concluding that an error was harmless in part because the Court was “confident that the members— using their common sense and everyday experiences—placed this evidence in a proper perspective and did not afford it substantial weight”
• finding “patently feeble” appellant’s innocent ingestion theory based on “consumption of ‘crumb cake’ during a drinking party,” testimony that “his lips were ‘numb and tingly,’ and the subsequent discovery that a drug dealer attended the party.”
• evidence of sinusitis not sufficiently probative of cocaine usage where accusation was only one-time usage to balance against danger it would be used to establish propensity and bad character.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).