State v. Omechinski

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the trial court’s failure to instruct witnesses not to discuss the case amongst themselves, where such instruction was not requested, does not rise to the level of plain error
• “For different reasons, we agree with the State and find no reversible error in this case.”
• “For different reasons, we agree with the State and find no reversible error in this case.”
• “Most errors, including constitutional ones are subject to harmless error analysis . . . simply because it makes no sense to retry a case if the result assuredly will be the same.”
• “In criminal cases, when a trial court fails to comply with Rule 615 of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence, prejudice is presumed and reversal is required unless the prosecution proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the error was harmless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).