State v. Motts

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing a defendant can waive a direct appeal but \cannot waive this Court's statutorily- imposed duty to review his capital sentence\
• holding a death sentence was proportionate where the defendant, who was serving a life sentence for the murders of his great-aunt and great-uncle committed during an armed robbery, murdered his cell mate
• “In [Panetti], the United States Supreme Court reiterated the holding in Ford and explained … ”
• Shearouse Adv. Sh. No. 10 at 45

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).