State v. Andrews
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted after a jury trial of one count of felony murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court’s decision to preclude the testimony of a key defense witness did not rise to the level of a constitutional violation, nor was it improper on purely evidentiary grounds; (2) Defendant’s claims of prosecutorial impropriety during cross-examination and closing argument were without merit; (3) Defendant’s argument that his conviction was fundamentally unfair because the State relied on a different theory in his case than in the case against an alleged coassailant was without merit; (4) the evidence was sufficient to support Defendant’s conviction for felony murder; and (5) the trial court did not err in denying Defendant’s motion to suppress oral and written statements to the police confessing his role in the murder.
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