Roever v. State
Roever v. State
Opinion of the Court
OPINION
The state has petitioned for rehearing of this court’s decision reversing and remanding appellant Roever’s judgment of convic
The state correctly asserts that this court’s majority opinion misstated circumstances under which an audiotaped interview was introduced into evidence.
We acknowledge that the opinion incorrectly concluded that it was the state that first used the tape in its case-in-chief. In fact, the audiotape was a defense exhibit; the state stipulated to its introduction into evidence during its case-in-chief so that a witness would not have to be recalled to testify later during the presentation of the case by the defense.
Nevertheless, this court’s holding that the admission of the rebuttal evidence was reversible error is also supported by additional substantial independent grounds discussed in the opinion. Therefore, this court did not overlook or misapprehend any material matter warranting rehearing.
This petition was previously denied in an unpublished order of this court issued on November 25, 1998. We have subsequently determined that our decision should be issued in a published opinion. Accordingly, we hereby issue this opinion in place of a prior unpublished order denying this petition for rehearing.
Our prior opinion mischaracterized this evidence as a “videotaped interview.” In fact, the evidence was an audiotape, not a videotape.
In actuality, the separate concurrences addressed this concern.
For this reason as well, we deny the state’s motion of November 9, 1998, seeking leave to supplement its petition for rehearing with additional argument.
This petition challenges a decision issued prior to the expansion of the court from five to seven justices on January 4, 1999. Only those justices remaining on the court who previously heard this matter participated in this decision.
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