196 Ohio App. 3d 798 - State v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, one of the things that you just heard a few seconds ago from the State was — was hearsay, and there’s a concern all the time that statements are made outside of Court and that actual person doesn’t come into Court and testify and is not subject to cross examination. There are certain exceptions in the law and that deals with the Evidence Rules that I spoke about yesterday, that we have to comply with those rules. Sometimes in allowing in information such as that, information that comes in from someone that (inaudible) testify in open Court, there’s a purpose for that, and in this case the evidence about Mr. Gipson going with police detectives and, first off, pointing out a residence; second, pointing out the person on the street known as Peanut, and saying that’s Peanut, and then later showing the photograph to Mr. Gipson and him saying that’s Mr. Ricks, all those are not for the truth of the matter asserted. In other words, they don’t necessarily mean that that was Peanut, that man walking down the street, that that was the residence he lived at or that’s the photograph, but they’re really brought in for the purpose to explain this officer or that department’s investigation, why they were doing what they were doing, and the State has laid a foundation, what was your purpose of going out there and those kinds of things. So understand when you’re hearing this testimony that it’s to describe this officer and that department’s investigation in c”

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

2. “In the present case, we have a co-defendant who identified an individual he believed to be Peanut. There is no evidence that Gipson used the opportunity to exonerate himself and implicate appellant. Once Peanut was identified as appellant, the Sandusky officers were able to compile a photo array. Further, the court issued a lengthy curative instruction to ensure that the jury properly interpreted the testimony. Finally, Gipson was made available for questioning but appellant declined. Based on the foregoing, we find that the trial court did not err in allowing the testimony.”

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