State v. Adrien Stillwell

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire affirmed Adrien Stillwell’s convictions, holding that the admission of machine‑generated raw DNA data did not violate the Confrontation Clause, that the statements against penal interest were harmless error, and that the trial court’s failure to sua sponte intervene on improper prosecutorial closing statements was not plain error. The court based its analysis on de novo review of the Confrontation Clause claims and on the harmless‑error and plain‑error doctrines.