Navarro, Joel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plain error applied where defendant represented by counsel filed a pro se motion not renewed by trial counsel
• rejecting defendant’s argument that photographs of him with a gun weren’t clear
• picture alone of defendant holding firearm is enough to convict for felon in possession
• “[E]ven if the photos [on the defendant’s Facebook page] were statements, they would have (so long as authenticated) qualified as statements of a party opponent and thus were not hearsay all the same.”
• “We see no reason to depart from the ordinary rule that photographs, including social-media photographs, are authenticated by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the photograph is what the proponent claims it is.” (cleaned up)
• “[I]t is not at all clear . . . why our rules of evidence would treat electronic photos that police stumble across on Facebook one way and physical photos that police stumble across lying on a sidewalk a different way.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).