Legal Opinion · Dissent

Jennifer O'Connor v. Newport Hospital

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided March 17, 2015No. 2012-87-AppealPublished

1DissentJustice Indeglia

While I agree with my colleagues in the majority that the three documents1 introduced into evidence may have been improperly admitted, I remain convinced that they were cumulative in nature and any error in their admission, at most, was harmless. See Now Courier, LLC v. Better Carrier Corp., 965 A.2d 429, 435 (R.I.2009) (noting that the admission of otherwise inadmissible evidence “is harmless when the record demonstrates that it is merely cumulative of proper evidence”); Flanagan v. Wesselhoeft, 765 A.2d 1203, 1210 (R.I.2001) (holding that “the use of unauthenticated excerpts from medical…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Now Courier, LLC v. Better Carrier Corp.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 2009
  2. Flanagan v. WesselhoeftSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2001
  3. Maynard v. Rhode Island HospitalSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1988

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