State v. Cheeks
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The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions for first-degree murder by starvation and negligent child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury and Defendant's sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, holding that there was no prejudicial error.
Before the Supreme Court, Defendant argued that the trial court erred by failing to dismiss the first-degree murder charge on the grounds that the record failed to contain sufficient evidence to support a finding that the child victim's death was proximately caused by starvation. The Supreme Court disagreed, holding that the trial court had ample justification for concluding that the victim died as a proximate result of starvation.
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