State v. Devey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “one isolated reference” to the complaining witness as victim did not “deprive[] [the defendant] of his constitutional right to the presumption of innocence”
• concluding, after assuming without deciding that the term “victim” was unconstitutional, that the error was harmless because there was only “one isolated reference to the child as ‘the victim,’ and the reference was made, without prompting, by a witness”
• “[W]e give words that have well-defined legal meanings those meanings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).