Court Opinion

ID: 9700975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 21:55:59.88208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:16.709006
License: Public Domain

MANDERINO, Justice,
concurring.
While I join in the majority’s grant of a new trial, I would like to express my reasons for doing so. First, as I have previously stated, I believe that photographs depicting the lifeless body of the victim, of a crime are per se inflammatory and likely to so affect the jury that they should be admitted into evidence only if they are of essential evidentiary value. Clearly, the photographs at issue here were not essential and their admission was reversible error.
*511LARSEN, Justice, dissenting.
I dissent; a picture is worth a thousand words.