State v. Harris

Following a conviction for voluntary manslaughter, the appellant was sentenced to twenty-four years’ imprisonment.

The record in this case is over three hundred pages long. We have determined that less than thirty percent of the included material is relevant to the exceptions or additional sustaining grounds before us. The record grossly offends Rule 4 of the Supreme Court Rules.

Rule 4 repeatedly insists the record comprise only relevant material. We see in this appeal no hint of effort to cull irrelevant matter from the record. We denounce not only this casual violation of Rule 4, but also…