Hassan v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Hassan’s convictions, holding that his unpreserved challenges to hearsay evidence and the circumstantial-evidence jury instruction did not satisfy the plain-error standard. The challenged testimony was not clearly hearsay because neither witness expressly repeated an out-of-court statement, and the jury instruction adequately conveyed the requirement that reasonable theories of innocence be excluded. The court did not reach the alleged errors’ effect on substantial rights, individually or collectively, because no clear error was shown.