State v. Leisure

NUGENT, Presiding Judge.

Defendant John Paul Leisure (hereinafter Paul Leisure) appeals from his conviction of capital murder for his part in the bombing death of James A. Michaels, Sr. The jury returned a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for fifty years. The defendant charges the trial court with error in refusing to give his proffered jury instructions, in refusing to excuse a juror for cause, in admitting hearsay testimony, in admitting evidence obtained by a federal wiretap, and in failing to order a mistrial following the prosecutor’s improper closing arguments.…