State v. Childs
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for perjury based on testimony she gave at her husband's trial on a misdemeanor charge, holding that there was neither error nor plain error in the proceedings below.
Specifically, the Supreme Court held (1) the district court did not err in receiving the transcript from Defendant's husband's trial over Defendant's hearsay objections and did not err in overruling her motion for a directed verdict; and (2) the district court did not commit plain error by allowing the prosecutor to comment on Defendant's husband's conviction and to allow the jury to consider the transcript of the husband's trial without redacting a comment made by the judge.
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