State v. Tyus

Summary

The court upheld the defendant’s murder conviction, concluding that the joint trial with his codefendant was proper because the cases arose from the same incident, the evidence was largely cross-admissible, and the defenses were not antagonistic. The court declined to decide whether obtaining three days of the defendant’s historical cell-site location information without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment because any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. It held that testimony indirectly conveying an unavailable firearms examiner’s testimonial findings violated the confrontation right, but affirmed because the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.