Pettie v. State

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• concluding that State had failed to produce convincing evidence that valid suicide attempt had occurred
• declining to reach issue of whether proffered evidence was admissible because facts did not support conclusion that evidence was what proponent claimed it to be
• finding facts insufficient to support conclusion that defendant tried to kill himself and that attempt was in response to criminal conduct but not reaching ultimate question of whether evidence of attempted suicide is admissible as analogous to flight
• evidence of suicide attempt improperly admitted because prosecution failed to prove actual suicide attempt made

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).