Allen v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping. The trial court imposed a sentence of death. Defendant appealed. The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and sentences, holding (1) the trial court did not err in limiting the defense's cross-examination of a State witness; (2) there was sufficient evidence to support Defendant's convictions; (3) the prosecutor asked improper questions of Defendant's mental health expert, but the error was harmless; (4) the trial court did not err in finding certain aggravating circumstances; (5) the trial court did not err in rejecting certain statutory mental mitigators and in assigning weight to the nonstatutory mitigation; and (6) the death sentence in this case was proportional.
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