State v. Van Kirk

How courts have described this case

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

• “no evidence could be more inflammatory or more prejudicial than allegations of child molestation”
• when conducting harmless error review, appellate courts cannot ‘‘simply tally the quantity of the admissible evidence of guilt, [but] instead [must] evaluat[e] the qualitative impact the inadmissi- ble evidence might have had on the finder of fact’’ (emphasis in original)
• when conducting harmless error review, appellate courts cannot ‘‘simply tally the quantity of the admissible evidence of guilt, [but] instead [must] evaluat[e] the qualitative impact the inadmissi- ble evidence might have had on the finder of fact’’ (emphasis in original)
• erroneous introduction of HGN without proper foundation was harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).