State v. LeClaire

Amestoy, C J.

¶ 1. Defendant appeals his conviction after a jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree for causing mortal head trauma to a sixteen-month-old child left in his care. Defendant argues that he is entitled to a new trial because the Chittenden District Court erred by: (1) denying his motion to dismiss in which he claimed that the State failed to collect and preserve potentially exculpatory evidence; (2) prohibiting him from introducing certain evidence at trial in his defense; (3) admitting as evidence the statements he made to the police while on furlough; (4) denying…