Does admitting a blood-alcohol report that indicates that defendant defendant Lopez was intoxicated at the time of the incident constitute prejudicial error?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lopez, 177 Cal.App.4th 202, 98 Cal. Rptr. 3d 825 (Cal. App. 2009):
Because it cannot be shown the error of admitting the blood-alcohol report that Lopez was intoxicated at the time of the incident was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt (Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18 [17 L.Ed.2d 705, 87 S.Ct. 824]), the admission of the report into evidence was prejudicial error and the judgment is therefore reversed.
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