State v. Couch
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The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction for aggravated kidnapping and vacated his sentence for that conviction but affirmed the remainder of his convictions, holding that the State did not present sufficient evidence to sustain Defendant's aggravated kidnapping conviction.
Defendant appealed his convictions to the court of appeals, which affirmed the trial court's judgment. The Supreme Court reversed in part, holding (1) Defendant's disruptive pretrial behavior provided a lawful basis for the district court to deny Defendant's request to represent himself at trial; (2) Defendant's aggravated kidnapping conviction was supported by insufficient evidence; (3) the jury instructions on the lesser-included offenses of aggravated battery were not factually appropriate, but the instructional error did not warrant reversal of Defendant's aggravated battery conviction; and (4) the cumulative effect of the trial errors did not require reversal.
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