Ernst v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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50 state decisions

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1. “Appellant never objected to the admission of any of this testimony at trial, much less requested a limiting admonition. We have held that such admonitions are required only `upon request' and that the failure to request an admonition is generally regarded as trial strategy. Certainly, we would not expect a trial judge to sua sponte admonish the jury to give a limiting effect to evidence to which there was no objection. The failure to give an unrequested limiting admonition is not palpable error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bixler v. Commonwealth

2. “it is more likely than ordinary error to have affected the judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowling v. Commonwealth