Smith v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed Smith’s convictions and sentence. It held that the Superior Court properly excluded Smith’s statement made several days after the crash because it was not relevant to his mental state at the time of the collision, and that the challenged murder instructions did not constitute plain error when viewed as a whole. The Court also held that Smith waived a new appellate argument not raised in his opening brief and had not preserved the instructional claims for ordinary review.