Loving v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, two counts of attempted first-degree premeditated murder, and three drive-by-shooting counts. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release for the murder conviction. Defendant challenged his convictions by filing a petition for postconviction relief, raising a number of claims. The postconviction court denied the petition in its entirety. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree premeditated murder but vacated Defendant’s three drive-by-shooting convictions, holding (1) the evidence was sufficient to support the premeditated-murder counts; (2) there was no evidentiary error during trial; (3) the postconviction court did not err when it refused to review the grand-jury transcripts or disclose them to Defendant’s postconviction counsel; but (4) the drive-by-shooting counts were duplicative of the premeditated-murder and attempted-premeditated-murder counts.
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