Pausch v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that admission of officer’s statement expressing his disbelief of the defendant’s story and accusing her of lying and committing the crime was reversible error
• holding Williams rule evidence admissible to show the absence of accidental death when defendant stated that victim must have fallen on the floor while sleeping
• holding it was improper that jury heard detective's statements to defendant in recorded interview that she had abused her son and was going to kill him
• finding that the jury “could not have reasonably been expected to isolate and extract from the recording that which was admissible as evidence of the crime while disregarding the aspersions of guilt created by [the detective’s] words”
• finding it unreasonable to expect the jury to extract the admissible evidence while disregarding the aspersions of guilt created by the police officer’s inadmissible statements
• finding it unreasonable to expect the jury to extract admissible evidence while disregarding the aspersions of guilt created by police officer’s inadmissible statements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).