Criminal – Murder – Hearsay – State-Of-Mind Exception

By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 26, 2008

Even assuming the trial court erred in allowing as “state of mind” evidence testimony from a co-worker of defendant’s roommate that defendant had earlier put a gun to the roommate’s head, admitting the testimony was harmless error in light of the overwhelming evidence that defendant fatally shot his roommate after he said the roommate swiped ...

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