Cline v. State

Case Summary

Krista Cline was charged with the murder of her two-month-old daughter Alexis. At trial Cline sought to shift responsibility for the crime to her boyfriend Lamar Jenkins. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the trial court sentenced Cline to sixty-five years imprisonment. In this direct appeal Cline raises four issues for our review which we rephrase as: (1) did the trial court err by excluding evidence of Jenkins’ gang affiliation and evidence of his propensity for violence, (2) did the trial court err by allowing into evidence Jenkins’ pre-trial hearsay statement, (3) did…