Heffelfinger v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a correct result that a trial court reached for a wrong reason
• “An appellant’s failure to properly address the merits of his assertion of error constitutes abandonment of the issue.”
• “Appellate review of unpreserved constitutional claims is for plain error affecting the defendant’s substantial rights.”
• a defendant preserves a constitutional claim by “presenting [it] to the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).