Adel v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was found guilty of malice murder for killing his roommate and theft by taking his car. Defendant appealed. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find defendant guilty of all the crimes for which he was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt; the trial court did not err in allowing alleged hearsay testimony; because the evidence supported the inference that others could have been involved in the murder, and even defendant himself tried to implicate another, evidence supported the trial court's decision to include a charge on parties to a crime; and defendant's counsel's failure to object to the admission of the investigator's testimony on hearsay grounds could not amount to ineffective assistance. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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