Keith Hamaker v. Tierrah Newman

How courts have described this case

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• hearing on motion to suppress is same proceeding as trial for purposes of waiver by testimony
• upholding jury instruction that facts suggested in leading questions answered in the negative are not evidence
• during an interrogation, defendant asked if his counsel should be present, was re-read his rights, and then explicitly said he was willing to proceed without counsel
• defining deliberate premeditation as requiring that defendant “act with the intent that his actions will cause death and that he acted with sufficient time (even if fleeting) to reflect on that consequence” [footnote omitted]
• single improper sentence appealing to sympathy does not require new trial
• single improper sentence appealing to sympathy did not require new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).