Mahn v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the State failed to prove a robbery because the evidence established that, after the violence, the defendant took the victim’s belongings “to effect his escape from the scene”
• concluding that although robbery conviction was.improperly used as a prior violent felony conviction, it was harmless error because contemporaneous convictions of two other homicides satisfied the aggravating circumstance
• concluding that although robbery conviction was improperly used as a prior violent felony conviction, it was harmless error because contemporaneous convictions of two other homicides satisfied the aggravating circumstance
• stating that the standard set out in Tedder was the standard for a trial court to override a jury recommendation of life imprisonment at the time
• ”[W]e affirm Mahn’s first-degree murder convictions, but remand with directions that his sentence for Debra Shanko’s murder be reduced to a life sentence without eligibility for parole for twenty-five years.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).