Witham v. Witham

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of unrelated warrant was not unduly prejudicial where court excluded evidence of underlying offenses on which warrants were based
• “Extrajudicial statements to a police officer are inadmissible hearsay unless offered to explain the basis for the action later taken by the police officer.”
• inadmissible “anonymous tip was hearsay evidence because it was used, at least in part, to prove the truth of the matter asserted – that the police arrested Kerr because he was trafficking drugs”
• “The existence of the arrest warrants here was necessary to an adequate understanding of the context of the officers’ conduct—it provided the setting and context of the events surrounding the officers’ surveillance of Kerr’s guest room.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).