L.1988, ch. Morrison immediately responded, I didn't mean it in that context. Judge Anderson sustained the objection and instructed the panelists to disregard the statement. Bonner's oldest son died in October 1995, but she did not attend his funeral. It tended to prove or corroborate other evidence that Robinson lured women to Kansas with offers of travel, employment, or other personal or financial support with the intent to exploit them financially or sexually. The prosecutor did not suggest to jurors that the goal of impartiality undercut or should subvert the presumption of innocence. Then-prosecutor McClain investigated and prosecuted Robinson on a theft by deception charge related to his fraudulent invoicing practices that defrauded the owners of Back Care. Attempting to rehabilitate Juror 185, defense counsel asked whether she could impose a death sentence if aggravators outweighed mitigators. As to the fifth factor, Dahl's venue study suggests media coverage had an effect on prospective jurors because 67 percent of respondents believed defendant was probably or definitely guilty. This means that if there is prejudicial conduct, the trial court must determine if the damaging effect can be removed or mitigated by admonition or instruction to the jury. 213439(a)(6), which defines the offense to include the intentional and premeditated killing of more than one person as a part of the same act or transaction or in two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or course of conduct. The counts were identical in charging the murder of a principal victim as one of multiple acts or transactions constituting parts of a common scheme or course of conduct in which other human beings were killed in a premeditated and intentional manner, to-wit: Beverly J. Bonner, Sheila Faith, Debbie Faith and Lisa Stasi. Count II charged Suzette Trouten as the principal victim and Count III charged Izabela Lewicka as the principal victim. In Yurk, some jury members were exposed to a newspaper report published during trial that disclosed defendant's three prior convictions for crimes similar to those charged. In State v. Gleason, 299 Kan. 1127, 329 P.3d 1102 (2014), cert. They also found e-mails confirming Robinson's registration of the slavedancer name on several e-mail servers. Kleypas, 272 Kan. at 1084. Robinson argues that the prosecutor's use of the term we're, instead of you're, in questioning Cunningham improperly suggested that both the State and Cunningham personally thought it possible that Robinson could have Internet access in prison. However, without the original checks, there were legitimate proof problems in attempting to match the endorsements on the back of the checks. 201[4] Supp. Several weeks later, Trouten's family received a number of letters purportedly authored by Trouten in envelopes postmarked Veracruz, Mexico, on May 19, 2000. 213439(a)(6), we exercise unlimited review. See Adams v. State, 2005 WY 94, 2226, 117 P.3d 1210 (Wyo.2005) (admission of edited printouts of chat room messages did not violate best evidence rule; computer printouts subject only to proof of authenticity). 222503 was a response to its earlier approval of K.S.A. Q. Young believed the body had been stored for a long period of time because most external features were blurred and the internal organs were hard to distinguish. There, the district court's denial of continuance was founded on legally erroneous findings, and the Court of Appeal's declaration that the error was harmless would have deprived defendant of the very benefit that induced him to enter his plea agreementthe opportunity to pursue a durational departure. Did the prosecutor commit misconduct during the cross-examination of Mark Cunningham? The court first decides whether the comments were outside the wide latitude a prosecutor is allowed, e.g., in discussing the evidence. Robinson fails to establish any specific grounds for error. 2. They had a whirlwind romance, and married only a few months after they met. 3. See Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347, 354, 84 S.Ct. Based on the record presented, we simply cannot conclude that Judge Anderson erred by admitting this testimony in the absence of an objection. Therefore the prosecutor's statement did not constitute prejudicial misconduct. Manipulation and deceit, they go hand in hand with the defendant throughout these last 20 years.. 20319. Also, the ruling was made 10 days before closing argument, in the midst of an extremely complex, multiweek criminal trial.