State v. Thomas Mercurio

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that error was not harmless where it affected witness credibility and credibility was “central to the case”
• holding that error was not harmless where it affected witness credibility and credibility was “central to the case”
• holding that error was not harmless where it affected witness credibility and credibility was “central to the case”
• holding admission of defendant’s prior convictions was not harmless because case was “largely devoid of physical evidence, rendering the credibility of each * * * witness[] central to the case”
• holding admission of defendant’s prior convictions was not harmless because case was “largely devoid of physical evidence, rendering the credibility of each * * * witness[] central to the case”
• upholding the admission of the witness’s prior convictions because the case “largely hinged on a credibility determination, making the ability to impeach a witness’s credibility of even greater importance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).