State v. Langley

This case is before this court for the third time on automatic and direct review of a judgment that imposed a sentence of death for aggravated murder. This court has previously affirmed defendant’s aggravated murder convictions, but twice has vacated his sentence of death and remanded for further penalty-phase proceedings, as we discuss in greater detail below. On this third review, defendant raises 27 assignments of error related to the third and most recent penalty-phase proceeding. As his second assignment of error, defendant submits that the trial court erred by requiring him to proceed…