McMichen v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of a defendant’s specific bad acts is admissible at the sentencing phase to show his character
• holding that “[introduction of evidence that [defendant] made affirmative statements claiming near total loss of memory did not constitute a comment on [defendant’s] right to remain silent”
• depravity of mind shown by infliction of mental distress on five-year-old girl who defendant left near her murdered mother’s body
• “In requesting the psychiatric histories of the state’s witnesses, McMichen failed even to allege that such histories existed.”
• evidence of defendant’s previous harassment and rape of ex-wife admissible as prior difficulty in murder case
• similar instruction not warranted when “[n]o statement admitted at trial was arguably the result of custodial interrogation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).