Court Opinion

ID: 9662847
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:19:46.537334+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:43.155157
License: Public Domain

SCOTT, J,,
concurring, in part, and dissenting, in part.
Although I concur with the majority on all other issues, I must respectfully dissent on Issue I for reasons the error was harmless. You can never have “palpable error,” if the error is — as it was here — harmless. Here, four (4) other felony convictions of Appellant were in evidence — none of which were even questioned. Thus, the fact that the trial court erroneously used a fifth (possession of drug paraphernalia) was plainly harmless. What I fear we are doing here is creating a class of palpable error, which is even lower than preserved error. For that reason, I must dissent as to the “palpable error” issue.