Idaho v. Ochoa
Annotate this CaseAlejandra Ochoa was convicted by jury of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. She appealed her conviction to the district court, which vacated the judgment of conviction and remanded the case for a new trial. The district court held that the magistrate court erred in excluding certain toxicological evidence, refusing to grant defendant’s request to continue the trial, and allowing the State’s pathologist to testify. The State appealed the district court’s decision. The Idaho Supreme Court determined the district court erred in reversing the magistrate court’s decision to not admit the results of the toxicology report, and erred in reversing the magistrate court's denial of the motion for a continuance. Further, the Court found the district court erred in reversing the magistrate court’s decision to allow the forensic pathologist to testify concerning the cause of death. The case was remanded to the district court with instructions to reinstate Ochoa's judgment of conviction.
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