Rhodes v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Rhodes’s convictions after concluding that the trial court properly admitted a Facebook post containing an admission that he had killed someone and that its probative value was not substantially outweighed by unfair prejudice from religious references. The court also rejected all three ineffective-assistance claims because the proposed exclusion and bifurcation motions lacked merit and Rhodes failed to show that a plea offer had been extended. The court deferred to the trial court’s factual and credibility findings regarding the alleged plea offer.