Rodney Harmon v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Harmon’s convictions and vacated the court of appeals’ opinion. It held that the State had no discovery obligation to obtain privately held footage from filmmakers who were not state agents, that denial of a continuance and exclusion of related testimony were within the trial court’s discretion, and that the erroneous trafficking instruction was harmless because other instructions supplied the same legally accurate factors. The court also upheld admission of the penalty-phase recording because Harmon did not develop his evidentiary argument.