Case ID: so3d_263/html/0413-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hughes, J., concurring.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. John DRUMMER, Jr.
    No. 2018-K-1139
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    February 11, 2019
    ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT, PARISH OF AVOYELLES
    Writ denied.
    HUGHES, J., concurs and assigns reasons.
   Hughes, J., concurring.

The statement of the minor child to her father is properly admissible. However, the later statement to the police officer is not "res gestae." Nor is the "other crimes" evidence admissible. But given the totality of the evidence, these errors are harmless.