Barnes v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice:

A Superior Court jury convicted Courtney Barnes of armed robbery. On appeal, Barnes challenges the admission of the store’s surveillance videotape because it was altered from its original slow speed time-lapse format into real time by a computer program. Because the trial judge authenticated the tape and weighed its probative value as altered against unfair prejudice within a reasonable range of discretion, he did not err when he admitted the reformatted tape of the robbery. Barnes also challenges the admission of an eyewitness’s pretrial out-of-court statements.…