Wright v. State

Hines, Justice.

Kayla Ragan Wright appeals her convictions for malice murder, aggravated assault, and concealing the death of another, as well as the denial of a motion for new trial, all in connection with the death by suffocation of her newborn daughter, Angel Fryman Wright. She challenges the exclusion of certain alleged expert testimony; the voluntariness and reliability of what she characterizes as her “confession” and the alleged lack of evidence to corroborate it; the expert testimony regarding the cause or manner of the baby’s death; the refusal to grant a mistrial following alleged…