Bernardini v. State

McMILLIN, C.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Robert Bernardini was convicted of capital murder in the death of his nineteen month old stepdaughter, Rachel Mackenzie Scruggs. He has appealed that conviction and asserts two grounds upon which he urges this Court to overturn his conviction. First, he contends that the trial court erred in failing to suppress an incriminating statement that he gave to investigating officers at a time when he was in custody. Secondly, he claims that he was denied a fundamentally fair trial asserting that (a) the prosecutor’s summation amounted to a…