Spearman v. Elizondo

How courts have described this case

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• holding it was plain error for a police officer to provide hearsay testimony explaining why he included defendant's photograph in a photo array and for the prosecutor to highlight that testimony in summation
• finding where there is no evidence that defendant took anything from a victim, a trial court is required to instruct the jury on the law of attempt as an element of robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).