Court of Appeals of South Carolina

The South Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed murder and weapons convictions, holding that out-of-state jail calls were properly authenticated by voice identification under Rule 901(b)(5), SCRE, without requiring a records custodian from the Ohio jail, and that admission of ankle monitor speed data was harmless because the same inference was established by multiple independent evidence sources.

The South Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed a murder conviction, holding that evidence of the defendant’s domestic abuse against his wife was admissible as rehabilitation evidence under Rules 607 and 608, SCRE, to explain why she initially gave inconsistent statements to police, and that the defendant’s remaining arguments were unpreserved because he failed to object contemporaneously when Dani’s trial testimony arguably exceeded the trial court’s pretrial ruling.