State v. Freeman
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of aggravated attempted murder, arson, and burglary. The sentencing court sentenced Defendant to fifty years imprisonment for the aggravated attempted murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and the sentence, holding (1) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence that Defendant attempted to put another person’s spit into his mouth before submitting to a cheek swab for a DNA sample, and the State did not engage in prosecutorial misconduct; and (2) the sentencing court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing Defendant, and a comparison of the gravity of the offense and the severity of Defendant’s sentence did not result in an inference of gross disproportionality.
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