Jeancharles v. State

Lionel Jeaneharles was tried by jury and convicted of first degree murder. In this appeal from that conviction, the defendant challenges three of the trial court’s evidentiary rulings. More specifically, he claims the trial court abused its discretion: by permitting the State to introduce evidence that one of the alibi witnesses went to defense counsel’s office to tell his story at the urging of another, thus, suggesting that the defendant had suborned perjury (point I); by permitting the State to introduce extrinsic evidence to impeach his alibi witness on a collateral matter (point II); and…