Banta v. State

Hines, Justice.

Katherine Louise Banta appeals her convictions for felony murder while in the commission of cruelty to children in the first degree and making a false statement to a government agency in connection with the death of 23-month-old Charisma Wallace. Banta challenges the sufficiency of the evidence; the failure to grant a directed verdict; the denial of her motion in limine regarding certain photographs; the refusal to allow what she characterizes as “rehabilitation evidence”; the refusal to charge the jury on reckless conduct; and the effectiveness of trial counsel. Finding the…