Court Opinion

ID: 9681450
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:50:49.814816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:33.725352
License: Public Domain

GREENE, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
Like Judge Crow, I am deeply concerned regarding the admission into evidence, over objection, of a loaded rifle that had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes in question.
Prosecutorial overkill has no place in the orderly administration of justice, and, in many instances, results in reversal of criminal convictions that otherwise would not happen. In this case, however, the horse was already out of the bam before defense counsel closed the door, in that the police officer who had discovered it in defendant’s home had already identified it in the presence of the jury, before defense counsel made any objection concerning the weapon.
When you couple that circumstance with the fact that evidence of defendant’s guilt on the three charges was more than sufficient to sustain the verdicts, I fail to see where the error was prejudicial.