Legal Opinion · Dissent

Tucker v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided June 26, 2009No. CR-07-0434Published

1DissentWelch, Judge

The majority holds in its unpublished memorandum that no reversible error occurred when the trial court permitted Detective Ed McGuffie to testify regarding allegations of Ralph Tucker’s molestation of two other minor victims, V.N. and C.C., even though those allegations bore no relevance to the case being tried here, which involves allegations that Tucker had sexual intercourse with KM. before K.M. was 12 years old. The majority holds, first, that “the State elicited the testimony from McGuffie to establish what led to the investigation of [Tucker] and how law-enforcement officers…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Fahy v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Ex Parte MelsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 2000
  4. Ex Parte BakerSupreme Court of Alabama · 2004
  5. Ex Parte PhillipsSupreme Court of Alabama · 2006

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