State v. Portnoy

How courts have described this case

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• affirming assault convictions of bail bondsman who injured bailee’s family members in attempt to capture bailee
• bondsman may not sweep from his path third parties who he thinks are blocking his search
• defendant's conduct rationally could have been found to be more dangerous and deserving of prosecution than that of codefendant
• court upheld bondsman’s conviction for assault of a neighbor who was present in the principal’s home, rejecting claim that bondsman may sweep from his path all third parties whom he believes are blocking his search for his client without criminal liability
• finding Confrontation Clause violations are subject to harmless error analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).