Joseph Fuentes v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• explaining trial court’s response to jury’s question was not fundamental error and did not make a fair trial impossible
• finding specific intent to kill where officer testified that Fuentes pointed gun at him and that the officer heard a shot, even though officer did not see Fuentes fire at him
• admission of rifle not unduly prejudicial where the jury heard evidence that defendant also possessed a handgun
• no undue prejudice in admitting photograph of rifle found in Fuentes’ car, even though he was alleged to have committed offense with a different gun; possession of a firearm is generally not an offense
• “the possession of a firearm, generally speaking, is not a misdeed
• evidence relevant to a criminal prosecution is inherently prejudicial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).