State v. Sims

Summary

The court vacated the trial court’s order limiting the social-media evidence admissible at Sims’s severed trial and remanded for further proceedings. It held that the record did not reveal whether the exclusion rested on relevance, unfair prejudice, or another legal basis, and that the trial court did not apply a legally sufficient standard under any apparent basis. The court also rejected arguments that the State waived its challenge by failing to invoke Rule 403 expressly or by approving the order’s form.