State v. Triplett
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon, second-degree burglary, and first-degree murder under the felony murder rule. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment and ordered that Defendant receive a new trial, holding that the trial court abused its discretion by excluding evidence of a threatening voice mail message left by one of Defendant’s sisters for a different sister and that the error was prejudicial. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the trial court’s ruling that the probative value of the voice mail message was outweighed by other concerns under N.C. R. Evid. 403 was not “manifestly unsupported by reason.”
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