State v. Froman
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of two counts of aggravated murder and sentence of death, holding that no prejudicial error occurred in the proceedings below.
Specifically, the Supreme Court held (1) the trial court had jurisdiction over the course-of-conduct death-penalty specification; (2) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence relating to the murder; (3) Defendant was not denied his right to an impartial jury due to the seating of certain jurors; (4) the trial court did not deny Defendant his rights to due process and a fair trial by requiring him to wear leg shackles during the trial; (5) the trial court did not err in ruling that an audiovisual-forensics analyst was a lay witness and allowing him to testify; (6) the trial court did not err in admitting Defendant's videotaped phone conversations; (7) the trial court did not err in admitting autopsy photographs into evidence; (8) no plain error occurred from the prosecutor's statements during the mitigation phase of trial; (9) Defendant received effective assistance of counsel; and (10) Defendant's sentence was constitutional.
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