Weber v. State

MOORE, Justice:

Paul E. Weber killed 17 year old Dirk T. Henson and was then convicted by a jury of second degree murder 1 and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. 2 Weber appeals these convictions on several grounds, but we address only three:

1) the refusal of the trial court to permit the jury to hear that the State’s eye-witnesses to the alleged crime had received cash payments from the victim’s family before testifying;

2) the police failure to inform Weber during custodial interrogation that both his father and a privately retained lawyer were present at the…