State v. Kunellis

How courts have described this case

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• holding \State may not present evidence of a victim's good character unless and until it has been attacked by the defense\
• holding \State may not present evidence of a victim's good character unless and until it has been attacked by the defense\
• examining felony-murder statute, which criminalized the killing of a human being in the commission of, attempt to commit, or flight from an inherently dangerous felony and referring to flight from that “completed crime”
• erroneous jury instructions required reversal and remand, but evidence was sufficient to support convictions of felony murder and theft
• when verdict shows jury specifically rejected legally sound theory in favor of what court deems legally unsound theory, conviction must be reversed
• prosecutor’s statements, testimony painting “Norman Rockwellesque” picture of victims’ lives just before accident designed to inflame jury

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