Court Opinion

ID: 9703472
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:57:58.857761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:49.380347
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
I agree that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting witness Capello’s testimony under the res gestae exception to the hearsay rule. Therefore I join the portion of the opinion so holding. The balance of the opinion, however, dealing with the admissibility of evidence of prior sexual experience, is unnecessary to the proper disposition of the case, and the analysis is highly questionable. I see no reason to engage in an advisory discussion of non-dispositive matter, and therefore decline to join that portion of the opinion.
NIX, J., joins in this concurring opinion.