Court Opinion

ID: 9723109
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:02:35.237377+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:44.861539
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MILLER, Justice
(concurring in result).
In my opinion, those portions of the doctor’s testimony relating to the identity of defendant were inadmissible hearsay and should have been excluded. I suggest that the doctor’s testimony (“I then asked ... if *12her father had ... and ... if he had ... ”) has no direct relationship to “diagnosis or treatment” (required by Rule 803(4)), especially some eight months after the criminal act.
However, considering the abundance of other direct evidence, I would hold that the admission of such testimony was harmless error. State v. Stavig, 416 N.W.2d 39 (S.D.1987); State v. Davis, 401 N.W.2d 721 (S.D.1987); State v. Traversie, 387 N.W.2d 2 (S.D.1986); and State v. Remacle, 386 N.W.2d 38 (S.D.1986).