Court Opinion

ID: 9714832
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:46:46.312632+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:28.924134
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CHEZEM, Presiding Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. I believe the testimony excluded by the trial court and discussed in Issue I is subject to a harmless error analysis. After having examined the evidence received and the description of the evidence excluded, I conclude that if the testimony had been admitted, it would have not made a difference in the jury's verdict. Jaske v. State (1989), Ind., 539 N.E.2d 14, 22 (the improper admission of evidence is harmless error when the conviction is supported by such substantial independent evidence of guilt as to satisfy the reviewing court that there is no substantial likelihood that the questioned evidence contributed to the conviction).