State v. Santana

Summary

The court held that the defendant failed to preserve his claim that statements in a search warrant affidavit were admissible under the hearsay exception for adopted or approved statements by a party opponent. A general assertion that the statements were not hearsay did not identify or functionally raise the applicable exception, and the defendant did not establish that the exclusion of the statements deprived him of a constitutional right to present a third-party culpability defense. The court therefore declined discretionary constitutional review and affirmed the judgment.