Lawler v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding the argument that the police improperly seized legally privileged documents was moot when no such documents were admitted at trial
• stating that victim impact testimony is not unconstitutional simply because it is poignant or sad
• five victim-impact witnesses testified, but because each witness’s testimony was brief, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the testimony
• record showed that witnesses and jurors became emotional during victim-impact evidence but there were no outbursts or displays of emotion that would have unduly prejudiced the defendant
• objects of a search warrant for “‘guns, ammunition, clothing, shoes, and other related items to the crime of murder,’” were “described with sufficient particularity”
• protective sweep of murder suspect’s home after stand-off with police and arrest to look for other possible suspects or victims was reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).