State v. Hardman
Annotate this CaseJeffrey Hardman was found guilty by a jury of deliberate homicide and tampering with evidence. The district court sentenced Hardman to 110 years in prison with no parole eligibility for thirty years. Hardman appealed his conviction and sought a new trial, contending that the district court made numerous erroneous evidentiary rulings amounting to cumulative error and requiring reversal. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in any of the evidentiary rulings save one, which was the court's admission into evidence of an irrelevant photograph of Hardmann holding a gun at a shooting range, but there was no reasonable probability that the photograph contributed to Hardman's conviction, and cumulative error did not require reversal of Hardman's conviction.
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