State v. Trogdon

GEER, Judge.

Defendant Alex Jerome Trogdon appeals from his conviction of second degree murder of his girlfriend’s 16-month-old son. He primarily contends on appeal that the trial court committed plain error by admitting expert testimony, a death certificate, and an autopsy report that the cause of the child’s death was “homicide.” Our review of the record indicates, however, that the expert witnesses and the exhibits did not use the word “homicide” as a legal term of art. Instead, the expert witnesses detailed the nature of the child’s injuries, the processes by which such injuries could…