Smith v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Scott Smith was convicted of capital murder for the death of seventeen-month-old Ally Waldrop and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Smith appealed his conviction to the Court of Appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in admitting several Facebook messages into evidence and that the testimony of an investigator violated the Confrontation Clause. The Court of Appeals found no reversible error and affirmed. Smith filed a Petition for Certiorari arguing that the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Facebook…