195 N.C. App. 599 - State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““[I]n order for a party to preserve for appellate review the exclusion of evidence, the significance of the excluded evidence must be made to appear in the record and a specific offer of proof is required unless the significance of the evidence is obvious from the record. We also held that the essential content or substance of the witness’ testimony must be shown before we can ascertain whether prejudicial error occurred.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jacobs

2. “[t]his Court has explained that ‘[t]he reason for such a rule is that the essential content or substance of the witness’ testimony must be shown before we can ascertain whether prejudicial error occurred. In the absence of an adequate offer of proof, we can only speculate as to what the witness’ answer would have been.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 627 - State v. McCravey