Green v. State (Majority, with Concurring and Dissenting)
Annotate this CaseAfter a second jury trial in 2012, Appellant was convicted of four counts of capital murder and one count of kidnapping. Appellant was sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the capital-murder convictions. Appellant's original convictions and sentences were reversed and remanded by the Supreme Court based on the circuit court's error in allowing the State to present reputation and other bad-acts evidence. The Supreme Court affirmed Appellant's 2012 convictions and sentences, holding, among other things, that the circuit court did not prejudicially err when it (1) denied Appellant's motion for directed verdicts for capital murder and kidnapping; (2) admitted out-of-court statements made by Appellant's son; (3) denied Appellant's motion for mistrial; (4) gave jury instructions on accomplice liability; (5) denied Appellant's challenge to a certain juror for cause; (6) failed to rule on Appellant's motion to settle the record; and (7) amended its judgment-and-sentencing order.
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