State v. Wicker

How courts have described this case

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

• an error is harmless if the reviewing court can conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that any reasonable jury would have reached the same result if the error had not occurred
• error not harmless where fingerprints were the sole basis of the State’s case and the jury received two opinions, one admitted in error
• business record cannot be used to prove conclusion on which “[n]ot all experts would necessarily agree”
• under the business records exception, an expert witness may testify only to acts, conditions or events, not to entries in the form of opinions or causal state ments
• testimony that identification was verified by another senior technician, as “demonstrated by the presence of her initials on the fingerprint card,” amounted to a statement that “the two sets of prints match” and was “classic hearsay”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-06-10· cited 31×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-12-28· cited 26×
• State v. Doerflinger
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-09-17· cited 20×
• State v. Garrett
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-01-23· cited 11×
• Bunche v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-18· cited 4×
• State v. Langill
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2010-11-30· cited 2×
• In re Welfare of M.R.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2022-10-13

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• White v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-15· cited 1,508×
• State v. Guloy
  Washington Supreme Court· 1985-09-05· cited 721×
• State v. Kreck
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-11-20· cited 72×
• State v. Aaron
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-03-19· cited 30×
• State v. Sosa
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-12-03· cited 26×
• State v. Medley
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1974-06-26· cited 25×
• State v. Heggins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-09-25· cited 13×