State v. Hillard

Summary

The court upheld Hillard's convictions except for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, which it found unsupported by sufficient evidence, and vacated the sentence for that conviction. It rejected Hillard's suppression, evidentiary, jury-instruction, venue, confrontation, and rape-sufficiency challenges presented in the visible portion of the opinion. The court held that the initial warrantless entry was justified by emergency aid, later surveillance evidence was admissible under inevitable discovery, and the challenged trial rulings did not constitute reversible error.