State v. Blurton
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of murdering his aunt, uncle, and their granddaughter. The trial court sentenced Defendant to death on all three counts of first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err by (1) rejecting Defendant’s proffered jury instruction for felony murder in the second degree; (2) admitting testimony from the State’s cell phone analyst and the State’s fingerprint analyst; (3) excluding testimony and argument that another individual had motive and opportunity to commit the murders; (4) excluding evidence of a witness’s alleged bias against a potential witness; and (5) denying Defendant’s mistrial requests when the State inadvertently showed crime scene photographs of the victims.
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