People v. Warlick

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “[i]t would have been enough for the officer to testify he received a radio message, then went to the recycling center”
• finding that an officer’s testimony that he received a call for a “burglary in progress” was inadmissible hearsay
• when out-of-court statements regarding the police investigation go to the essence of the dispute, they should not be admitted
• when out-of-court statements regarding the police investigation go to the essence of the dispute, they should not be admitted
• hearsay admission was harmless error where “the State made no attempt to exploit [the evidence] during its final argument,” avoiding exacerbation of the error
• “a serious issue in the case was whether a burglary in fact was taking place” and the unidentified declarant in the radio call stated that a “burglary [was] in progress”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).