Ryan Lee Wilks, Appellant (defendant) v. the State of Wyoming, Appellee (plaintiff)

Summary

The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed Wilks's second-degree murder conviction and seventy-years-to-life sentence. It held that several evidentiary and prosecutorial errors occurred, including admission of irrelevant character evidence and limited victim-impact material, but found no reasonable possibility that any error affected the verdict. The court also upheld the admission of lay opinion regarding Wilks's intoxication, found sufficient evidence that he acted purposely, and concluded that the sentence was within the trial court's discretion.