State v. Gomez
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court finding Defendant guilty of one count of partner or family member assault and one count of deliberate homicide, holding that the court erred in admitting some of the deceased victim's out-of-court statements, but the error was harmless.
Specifically, the Supreme Court held (1) the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's motion to sever the counts; (2) the district court did not abuse its discretion when it excluded evidence of the victim's drug use and denied Defendant's motion for a new trial; (3) the district court abused its discretion in admitting the victim's out-of-court statements as evidence of her state of mind, but the error was harmless; and (4) there were no grounds to apply the doctrine of cumulative error in this case.
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