North Dakota Supreme Court

State v. Hendricks

August 14, 20252025 ND 143

Summary

The court affirmed Hendricks’s convictions for two counts of child neglect. It held that his statutory argument was not preserved because his trial motions for acquittal relied on different grounds, but the evidence nevertheless supported the verdict because willful child neglect may include deliberate affirmative conduct. The court also upheld admission of the jail-call recordings and declined to find obvious error based on the unpreserved hearsay objection.