State v. Oliveria-Coutinho
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of three counts of first degree murder and one count of theft by deception over $1,500. After a sentencing determination hearing, Defendant was sentenced to three life sentences on the murder counts and twenty years’ imprisonment on the theft by deception count, to be served consecutively. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court did not err in (1) not granting Defendant’s Batson challenge; (2) denying Defendant’s request to sequester the jury during the trial; (3) denying Defendant’s motion to suppress; (4) denying Defendant’s motion to dismiss due to the deportation of several witnesses; (5) denying Defendant’s motion for advance ruling on certain evidentiary issues; (6) admitting the testimony of the State’s handwriting expert; (7) not allowing Defendant to admit evidence of his alibi witness; (8) not admitting evidence of a reenactment of the murders; (9) admitting a photograph of the victims; (10) denying Defendant’s motion for a new trail based on newly discovered evidence and based on the State’s opening statements; and (11) not granting a mistrial or striking the testimony of the State’s forensic anthropologist and dentist and in admitting photographs of skeletal remains.
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