Victim injury evidence
Demetris Kewan Mackie v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- After a jury found Demetris Kewan Mackie guilty of possessing a firearm after a felony conviction, he argued that the trial judge should have excluded photos of a victim’s injuries and hospital video because they did not prove an element of the firearm offense.
- Who it affects
- The denial leaves the lower-court decision in place for Mackie, but the Supreme Court did not decide whether the evidence should have been excluded.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case (denied review) and did not decide that argument.
A jury found Mackie guilty of possessing a firearm after a felony conviction. He later challenged the trial judge’s decision to allow injury photos and hospital video at trial.
Mackie’s appeal concerned whether injury photos and hospital video belonged in a trial for possessing a firearm after a felony conviction.
Question presented
The district court erred in denying petitioner ’s motion to exclude evidence of victim injury photos and hospital video where this evidence does not prove any element of the offense of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Documents
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More questions
- Why did the Supreme Court refuse to hear Mackie’s case?
- The docket order records the denial but gives no reason.
Sources
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