Buchanan v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Shearing, J.:

Appellant Denise Buchanan was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three infant sons. After a four-week trial with 100 witnesses, Buchanan was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life in prison with the possibility of parole. Buchanan contends that her judgment of conviction should be overturned because: (1) there is insufficient evidence to support her judgment of conviction; (2) she was prejudiced by the State’s failure to gather evidence and by the State’s destruction of…