State v. Brown
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of first-degree murder and other crimes, holding that an assumed error and a prosecutorial error occurred in the proceedings below, but those errors did not require a reversal of Defendant's convictions.
After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree, attempted murder in the first degree, conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree, criminal solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, and other crimes. Defendant received a hard twenty-five life sentence for the first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) presuming that the trial court erred in admitting a certain exhibit, there was no reasonable probability that the admission of the exhibit affected the outcome of Defendant's trial; and (2) the prosecutor made improper statements during closing argument, but the prosecutorial error was individually and cumulatively harmless.
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