State v. Ross

Summary

The court held that the district court properly consolidated Ross's five criminal cases because the charged conduct was connected by a common scheme or plan to dominate and control the women in his household, and the consolidation decision was not an abuse of discretion. It also held that the prosecutor's opening statement was not prosecutorial error and that Ross failed to preserve a challenge to the inadvertent playing of an unredacted portion of a 911 recording because counsel requested and received only a redacted exhibit and deliberately declined further relief. The court rejected cumulative-error relief, affirmed the convictions and sentence within the scope of review, left two alternative convictions undisturbed as outside the State's petition, and remanded for proceedings concerning those two convictions.