Rakeem Harris v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Harris’s first-degree-murder conviction and enhanced life sentence. It held that substantial evidence supported the verdict, the surveillance videos were properly authenticated duplicates whose probative value outweighed any unfair prejudice, and the jury-instruction challenge was unpreserved because Harris failed to proffer an alternative instruction. The court also upheld the denial of a new trial because the circuit court did not clearly err in finding the jury-misconduct evidence inconclusive, and it declined to review the unpreserved prosecutorial-misconduct claim.