Court Opinion

ID: 9707143
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 02:03:31.067846+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:28.179061
License: Public Domain

CONCURRENCE
GILBERT, Justice
(concurring).
I concur with the result reached by the majority. I agree with the holding that the admission of trial witness identification photographs for jury deliberations was improper. However, I would respectfully end the opinion with that holding and eliminate the dicta based on supposition and speculation relating to issues that were not properly raised at the trial court level. My concern relates to editorial comments about “tacit racial comment” that did not occur and to the method by which the pictures were offered at trial when no objection as to method occurred during trial. Dicta such as this weakens our jurisprudence and encourages trial lawyers to sit on their hands rather than raise appropriate and timely objections. This deprives the trial court of the opportunity to correct errors as they occur and inappropriately rewards appellate lawyers for creatively coming up with new theories of objection long after trial when no adequate record was made.