Rucker v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed his convictions for two counts of malice murder in connection with the fatal shootings of two victims, one count of kidnapping with bodily injury as the result of the abduction and rape of a third victim, and one count of kidnapping resulting from the abduction of a fourth victim. The court held that the trial court did not err in admitting into evidence photographs of videotapes labeled with violent content which were found in one of the two vehicles in which defendant and his family were attempting to flee at the time of his arrest, in response to defendant's insanity defense; the trial court did not err in permitting into evidence photographs of tattoos on his body taken after he was in custody in response to defendant's insanity defense; and even assuming that a prosecutorial comment raised the specter of defendant's dangerousness in the future, it was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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