Sykes v. State

Sykes v. State, No. 2132, September Term, 2019. Opinion by Ripken, J. CRIMINAL LAW – AUTHENTICATION AND FOUNDATION – TEXT MESSAGES Electronic evidence is authenticated using the reasonable juror standard, meaning that, for a trial court to admit electronic evidence, there must be sufficient evidence for a reasonable juror to find by preponderance of the evidence that the electronic evidence is what the proponent claims. CRIMINAL LAW – AUTHENTICATION AND FOUNDATION – TEXT MESSAGES The State produced sufficient evidence to authenticate text messages where the text messages were extracted from a…