Boyd v. State

Hines, Justice.

Jermaine Donald Boyd appeals his conviction for felony murder while in the commission of aggravated assault in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s four-year-old son, Treymaine Berry. Boyd challenges the trial court’s allowing the State to play a tape recording of a witness’s statement as violative of Crawford v. Washington, 541 U. S. 36 (124 SC 1354, 158 LE2d 177) (2004), the trial court’s alleged expression of opinion to the jury concerning the voluntariness of Boyd’s in-custody recorded statement, and the trial court’s refusal to charge the jury on involuntary…