State v. Kimbley, III

Summary

The Idaho Supreme Court affirmed Kimbley’s convictions, holding that his unpreserved public-trial and right-to-counsel claims could not support relief under the fundamental-error doctrine. The court also upheld admission of flight evidence and firearm-related testimony, concluding that the flight evidence was relevant and not unfairly prejudicial and that the firearm testimony was proper rehabilitation evidence and invited by the defense. The court declined to consider Kimbley’s prosecutorial-misconduct claim because he failed to preserve it and did not adequately raise fundamental error in his opening brief.