Ortega-Mantilla v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the error was harmless as “testimony was not made a feature of the trial, nor was it repeated by either side during closing arguments”
• “[TJestimony regarding the process used in filing the petition for civil commitment against the [defendant] was irrelevant because the sole issue in this case was whether the [defendant] could be classified as a sexually violent predator.”
• error to allow irrelevant testimony deemed harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).