The defendant alleged the trial court made several evidentiary errors during his trial for the murder of a twenty-three-month-old infant. The New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed the conviction. The defendant
The Pennsylvania Superior Court gave a rare rebuke of prior bad acts evidence in a sexual assault case. The 29-year-old defendant was charged with friending a 14-year-old girl on Facebook
The “state of mind” exception to the hearsay rule took center stage when detectives investigating a homicide found a note the decedent wrote stating, “If something happens to me—JOE.” The
The defendant appealed his conviction of first-degree murder and argued the Commonwealth failed to authenticate some text messages. He alleged the Commonwealth did not prove he authored the messages. The
In Commonwealth v. Yale, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court clarified the appropriate standard for the admission of evidence of a third person’s crimes, wrongs, or other acts (“third-person guilt”) offered by
In Hassan v. Williams, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued a must-read opinion, which touched on several evidentiary issues. The Court reviewed a defense-favorable verdict after a rear-end crash involving
In Commonwealth v. Wentzel, the defendant appealed after a jury found him guilty of resisting arrest. The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed. First, the Court discussed the propriety of the appeal.
In State v. Garcia, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued an important decision on hearsay evidence. In the immediate aftermath of an assault, the defendant’s family rushed to the investigating
A husband and wife married, but within a month, the husband passed away. The wife claimed that the husband gave her his luxury cars before he died. The husband’s sister
In Commonwealth v. Hudson-Greely, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reviewed a pre-trial ruling by the trial court permitting an 11-year-old child-victim to testify at trial via a contemporaneous alternative method (i.e.,
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