Jeffery McPherson v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed McPherson’s convictions for first-degree murder and felony tampering with physical evidence. It held that substantial evidence supported the jury’s findings that McPherson knowingly caused the infant’s death and deleted surveillance recordings to impair an investigation, while his sufficiency arguments were also limited by the scope of his directed-verdict motions. The court further concluded that the proposed reduction of the convictions to lesser offenses was unwarranted.