State v. Polak

Justice James Jeremiah Shea delivered the Opinion of the Court.

***91¶1 Joseph Richard Polak II appeals from a judgment, following a jury trial in the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, for deliberate homicide with a weapons enhancement, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and criminal endangerment.

¶2 We restate the issues as follows:

Issue One: Whether the District Court abused its discretion by granting the *115State's motion in limine excluding a glass methamphetamine pipe and the alleged drug use of a State witness that Polak sought to introduce for impeachment…