Harris v. State
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court excluding certain testimony from the jury trial of Defendant's habitual offender status, holding that the trial court did not err by excluding the testimony.
The trial court excluded Defendant's testimony to the circumstances of his "most serious crime of conviction," his intent to rehabilitate himself, and his purported innocence of one of his prior, unrelated felonies as irrelevant to the issue of whether Defendant had accumulated the requisite convictions. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Defendant's testimony was irrelevant because it did not tend to prove or disprove his convictions, and therefore, Defendant had no constitutional right to present the evidence. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Defendant's testimony was irrelevant because it did not tend to prove or disprove his convictions; and (2) Defendant had no constitutional right to present irrelevant evidence.
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