State v. Delacruz-Gomez

Summary

The court held that the trial court properly admitted the names of felony charges in the defendant's arrest warrant because they helped establish the reasonableness of the officers' force and the performance-of-duty element of the charged offenses, while limiting measures sufficiently reduced prejudice. The court concluded that identifying the arresting unit as the "Violent Fugitive Task Force" was irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial, but the error was harmless because the strong evidence of causation was not substantially affected. The judgment affirming the convictions was therefore affirmed.