State v. Davis

In this criminal case, the state argues that the Court of Appeals erred in reversing one of the trial court’s rulings excluding certain evidence. Defendant, in response, challenges two of the trial court’s other evidentiary rulings excluding evidence, which the Court of Appeals had affirmed. 1 Defendant was charged with murder and manslaughter based on allegations that he shook the victim, his 15-month-old daughter, and inflicted fatal abdominal and brain injuries on the night that she died. Defendant contended that the victim’s autopsy revealed that the victim had been injured at least…