Williams v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of, inter alia, malice murder of his pregnant girlfriend and her sister. Defendant's motion for a new trial was denied and he appealed. The court held that, viewed in context, defendant's statement "I can't go on answering these questions" was not an unambiguous and unequivocal assertion of the right to remain silent. Accordingly, agents had no obligation to cease the interview and it was not error to admit defendant's incriminating statements into evidence. The court also held that, even assuming the trial court erred by admitting the challenged testimony based on hearsay, the error was harmless because other admissible evidence covered the same subject matter. The court further held that it was not error to admit bullets and bullet casings found at the scene of the crime into evidence at trial.
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