State v. Harris (two Cases)

Summary

The court held that it had jurisdiction over the State’s appeals despite the absence of written pretrial orders because the record showed that the trial court effectively refused the State’s timely requests for written orders. It vacated the exclusion of evidence concerning two prior shootings because the trial court applied an incorrect Rule 403 standard, and it vacated suppression of the identification because the trial court did not clearly apply the substantial-likelihood-of-misidentification standard. The matters were remanded for reconsideration under the correct legal standards.