State v. Lopez
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and one count of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment with a mandatory minimum term of fifty years. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the evidence was sufficient to support Defendant’s convictions; (2) any error in the manner in which the district court handled information about a previous murder trial in which Defendant was acquitted was harmless; and (3) the district court properly weighed the statutorily prescribed aggravating and mitigating circumstances before imposing the hard fifty sentence.
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