State v. Stubbendieck

The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of the crime of assisting suicide, holding that there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction and that the district court did not err in its evidentiary rulings.Defendant was convicted of assisting the suicide of his girlfriend. On appeal, Defendant argued that the district court erred in admitting the testimony of a forensic pathologist who performed the decedent's autopsy and in admitting text messages between Defendant and his romantic acquaintance and that there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not abuse its discretion in permitting the forensic pathologist's testimony regarding the findings of the post mortem examination of the decedent; (2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the text messages; and (3) the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction for assisting suicide. View "State v. Stubbendieck" on Justia Law