Uecker v. Koehn

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that murder may be established solely by circumstantial evidence
• noting that prosecution and defense counsel has wide latitude as to what the evidence has shown and what reasonable inferences may be made
• finding prosecutorial misconduct where prosecutor, in closing, “improperly injected hearsay statements” that were not admitted for their truth
• allowing prosecution wide latitude as to what reasonable inferences may be drawn from evidence presented
• if the state can meet the “joinder test,” it need not meet the stricter other-acts test
• “[W]hen simple and direct evidence exists, an accused is not prejudiced by joinder regardless of the nonadmissibility of evidence of these crimes as ‘other acts’ under ... 404(B).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).