Scifres-Martin v. State

ROBERTSON, Judge.

Kathy Scifres-Martin appeals her conviction, after a jury trial, of voluntary manslaughter, a Class A felony, for which she was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Scifres-Martin raises three issues, but because one requires that we reverse, we address it only. Restated, it is:

whether the trial court erred in permitting the State to present evidence, on the direct examination of its own witnesses, that Scifres-Martin's family participated in a cover-up of the erime without presenting evidence linking Scifres-Martin to the cover-up?

FACTS

The facts in the light most…