State v. Hernandez
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of the murders of three individuals and of attempted murder. Defendant was sentenced to death for each murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding, inter alia, that (1) the trial court sufficiently inquired into the bases for Defendant's requests for a change of counsel and correctly denied the requests; (2) the trial court did not err in refusing to permit Defendant to impeach the surviving victim with her prior inconsistent statements absent an offer of proof of the prior statements; (3) the trial court did not err in admitting evidence impeaching a witness as substantive evidence of Defendant's guilt; (4) the State presented sufficient evidence of premeditation; and (5) the jury did not abuse its discretion by determining that the mitigation presented by Defendant was not sufficiently substantial to call for leniency.
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