Newman v. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting state's claim on appeal that other-act evidence was admissible to prove a particular motive for murder, after state had consistently argued in favor of a different motive at trial
• rejecting state’s claim on appeal that other-act evidence was admissible to prove a particular motive for murder, after state had consistently argued in favor of a different motive at trial
• rejecting state’s claim on appeal that other-act evidence was admissible to prove a particular motive for murder, after state had consistently argued in favor of a different motive at trial
• rejecting state’s claim on appeal that other-act evidence was admissible to prove a particular motive for murder, after state had consistently argued in favor of a different motive at trial
• “We observe that the trial court did not instruct the jury in the penalty phase as to what the aggravating circumstances were.”
• “We observe that the trial court did not instruct the jury in the penalty phase as to what the aggravating circumstances were.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).