State v. Teel

OPINION

DROWOTA, Chief Justice.

The Defendant, Homer “Butch” Teel, appeals directly to this Court his conviction of first degree murder and the sentence of death imposed by the jury. He raises numerous issues in this appeal, including: the trial court’s failure to suppress statements made by the Defendant to detectives and to various jailhouse inmates while in custody, the court’s failure to exclude testimony of the State serologist, the court’s failure to exclude evidence relative to the condition of the decedent’s body as found, errors alleging prosecutorial misconduct, errors relating to the…