State v. Stokes
Annotate this CaseThe Supreme Court reversed Defendant’s convictions of simple assault and intentional damage to property, holding that the circuit court erred as a matter of law in admitting purported business records - Verizon’s log of Defendant’s tex messages sent and received during the time of the alleged conduct underlying the convictions - because the State did not lay the required foundation for the evidence, and there was a reasonable probability that admission of the cell-phone log contributed to the jury’s decision. Because the error was prejudicial, the Court remanded for a new trial on Defendant’s convictions for simple assault and intentional damage to property.
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