Donald Adams v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Adams’s convictions for rape, second-degree sexual assault, and third-degree domestic battery. It held that his hearsay challenge to the victim’s writings was preserved by the circuit court’s sufficiently definite pretrial ruling, but any error was harmless because the victim testified and the writings were cumulative. The court also held that evidence of Adams’s suicide threats and conduct during his arrest was relevant to consciousness of guilt and admissible as res gestae evidence.