Nebraska Supreme Court, 2003

The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the validity of the jury verdict, found the evidentiary errors concerning the life care plan harmless, declined to consider an unpreserved hearsay challenge to that plan, and rejected the challenges to the admission of the pregnancy book.

The court held that the prosecution improperly introduced extrinsic evidence of specific prior acts to rebut Faust's character witnesses and that trial counsel's failure to object to much of that evidence constituted ineffective assistance that fundamentally deprived Faust of a fair trial.