People v. Grimes
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of one count of murder with burglary and robbery special circumstances and other offenses. The trial court sentenced Defendant to death for the murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that no prejudicial error occurred during the pretrial phase, the guilt phase, or the penalty phase. The dissent disagreed, remarking that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding certain out-of-court hearsay statements on the basis that any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt as to the guilt and penalty verdicts where the Attorney General did not argue that any error in the exclusion of the hearsay statements was harmless.
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