Heywood v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Jason Leon Heywood appeals his convictions for malice murder and other crimes related to the shooting death of Andrew Wilson. Appellant challenges the trial court’s refusal to continue the trial and empanel new prospective jurors based on a remark made during voir dire, his absence from bench conferences, the admission of certain blood spatter testimony, and the constitutionality of his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. We affirm.1

1. The evidence presented at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, showed the following. On…