Montana Supreme Court

State v. K. Morris

July 7, 20262026 MT 143

Summary

The court affirmed the exclusion of evidence concerning the victim’s prior sexual history and alleged infidelity, upheld the discovery sanction barring undisclosed investigator notes, and rejected the challenge to the evidentiary rulings. It held, however, that several probation conditions restricting contact with minors lacked a record-supported nexus to the offense or Morris’s therapeutic needs, and it reversed and remanded those conditions for reconsideration. The court also applied plain-error review to the unpreserved challenges because the conditions implicated Morris’s fundamental parental rights.