Noojin v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

Branton Noojin was convicted of murder and voluntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to consecutive sixty and forty-year terms. In this direct appeal he contends that (1) the trial court should have dismissed the charges against him because a detective did not preserve a rough draft of a statement from a witness; (2) the trial court abused its discretion in admitting hearsay testimony under the excited utterance exception; (3) the trial court erred in refusing his tendered instruction regarding the weight to be given to the testimony of a witness who had been granted immunity;…