State v. Spinks

OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

The charges against the appellant-defendant Clifford C. Spinks included perjury before a state grand jury. At trial the state was permitted to place transcribed portions of grand jury testimony into evidence, some of it from witnesses who did not appear at trial. The transcripts were not admitted for the truth of the testimony that they contained. Rather, they were admitted to demonstrate, through questions posed to a number of grand jury witnesses, that the defendant’s allegedly perjurious testimony concerned a subject material to the grand jury’s inquiry. The defendant…