Matta v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed Matta’s convictions, holding that admission of testimony that he had been expelled from the Boy Scouts was error but harmless because the properly admitted evidence independently supported the convictions. The Court also held that Matta’s challenge to testimony about family members’ comments was subject to plain-error review because his trial objection did not preserve the appellate theory, and the omission of a limiting instruction did not satisfy that demanding standard.