Legal Opinion

Rolle v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided July 16, 2010No. S-09-0086PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

VOIGT, Justice.

[¶ 1] Donald Lee Rolle (the appellant) seeks to overturn his convictions for first-degree murder, felony murder, and kidnapping. He asserts numerous claims of error. Finding no abuse of discretion or prejudicial error, we affirm.

ISSUES

[If 2] 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it admitted certain uncharged misconduct evidence?

2. Did the district court commit plain error when it did not give a limiting instruction immediately after the introduction of the uncharged misconduct evidence, but rather waited until the close of evidence, when defense counsel requested…

2Cases cited47 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. Huddleston v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  4. Hopkinson v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1981
  5. United States v. Marmon Dennis RecordCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1989

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Mersereau v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2012
  2. John Wallace McGinn v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2015
  3. Gregory M. Toth v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2015
  4. Garrison v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018
  5. Boucher v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2011

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