People v. Magyar

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “a limiting instruction such as this one that cautions the jury not to infer that a defendant had a bad character and acted in accordance with that character can protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial”
• noting that “a limiting instruction such as this one that cautions the jury not to infer that a defendant had a bad character and acted in accordance with that character can protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial”
• observing that “a limiting instruction such as this one that cautions the jury not to infer that a defendant had a bad character and acted in accordance with that character can protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial”
• finding sufficient evidence of malice where the defendant “intentionally struck the child victim on the head so forcefully as to cause -4- serious brain damage and then knowingly brought about the circumstances that led to her death when he delayed medical treatment”
• “[A] limiting instruction such as this one that cautions the jury not to infer that a defendant had a bad character and acted in accordance with that character can protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial.”
• “[A] limiting instruction such as this one that cautions the jury not to infer that a defendant had a bad character and acted in -8- accordance with that character can protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).