State of Minnesota v. Adam Taylor Fravel

Summary

The court affirmed Fravel’s convictions for four forms of murder, rejecting his challenges to hearsay evidence, domestic-violence expert testimony, the medical examiner’s opinion, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, cumulative error, and the sufficiency of the evidence. The court held that any evidentiary or prosecutorial errors were harmless or did not affect substantial rights, and that the circumstances proved supported the only reasonable inference that Fravel premeditated and intended Kingsbury’s death and acted with extreme indifference to human life.