Thompson v. Laughlin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that any error in excluding evidence of victim’s prior crimes was harmless given that multiple witnesses undermined defendant’s self-defense claim
• declining curative instruction in order to avoid further attention to defendant’s criminal history was reasonable trial strategy
• defendant waived right to complain that trial court denied his motion for a mistrial after his character allegedly had been placed into evidence because he refused the trial court’s offer of curative instructions
• “Given that [the defendant] declined the court’s offer to give a curative instruction with regard to the statement, he cannot now complain about its refusal to declare a mistrial. Accordingly, [the defendant] has waived his right to complain about the trial court’s decision.”
• “Given that [the defendant] declined the court’s offer to give a curative instruction with regard to the statement, . . . [he] has waived his right to complain about the trial court’s [refusal to grant his motion for mistrial].” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).