Matthew Pierce was convicted of aggravated child molestation and related offenses involving three fourteen-year-old boys. At trial, the State introduced a recorded interview and photographs of text messages from one boy’s cellphone, including communications that linked Pierce to offers of prescription drugs in exchange for sexual acts or images. The Supreme Court of Georgia held that the recorded interview was properly admitted and that the text-message photographs were sufficiently authenticated through the device, witness testimony, the identified telephone number, and the messages’ consistency with the other evidence. The photographs also satisfied Georgia’s best-evidence rules because they accurately reproduced what appeared on the phone. The court rejected Pierce’s challenges to the use of the evidence and to the statutory sentencing scheme. Life imprisonment, or a minimum of 25 years followed by lifetime probation, was not facially or as-applied cruel and unusual punishment for the aggravated child molestation shown by the record. The court affirmed.