State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Generally speaking, testimony which indicates a defendant’s guilt of a different and separate offense is inadmissi-ble_ However, where a state’s witness volunteers an unresponsive reference to yet another unrelated, separate and distinct crime, such reference may or may not constitute reversible error. In this respect, the trial court s decision to grant or not to grant a mistrial due to such an unresponsive reference is paid great deference, primarily because that court occupies a superior position from which to gauge the remark’s prejudicial effect.”

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