State v. Shurn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “[t]he State and the accused alike generally have wide latitude to develop evidence of motive”
• aggravating circumstance was victim’s status as potential witness in pending prosecutions of killer’s brothers
• “[T]he prosecutor’s failure to use all his challenges against blacks is relevant to show that race was not the motive for the use of peremptory strikes.”
• “the state cannot ask the defendant about unrelated criminal misconduct [unless the conduct] ... is related to the crime for which [defendant] was charged”
• Supreme Court concluded that defendant’s argument that the victim was the aggressor was similar to a self-defense theory and, therefore, the victim’s state of mind was relevant and admissible
• general reference to self-defense not mentioning this crime is permissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).