State v. Davolt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the superior court has no duty to investigate “bare allegations of juror misconduct”
• holding that if evidence is discovered as a result of a Miranda violation and the evidence would not have been inevitably lawfully discovered, the physical evidence must be excluded
• noting that error is harmless when “the reviewing court can say beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict”
• noting that error is harmless when “the reviewing court can say beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict”
• holding court abused its discretion by admitting crime scene photographs of victims’ charred bodies because the defendant did not contest fact at issue and photographs were both cumulative and likely to inflame jury
• refusing to apply inevitable discovery doctrine where “no information was adduced that the evidence discovered ... might ever have been obtained lawfully”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).