State v. Tibbetts

The appellant, Raymond Tibbetts, was convicted of the aggravated murders of Judith Sue Crawford and Fred Hicks. He was sentenced to death for Hicks’s murder and life imprisonment without parole for Crawford’s murder. Tibbetts presents fifteen propositions of law for our consideration. For the *147reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the trial court, including the death sentence.

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On November 6, 1997, Hicks’s sister, Joan Hicks Landwehr, arrived at Hicks’s home in Cincinnati to meet him for lunch. Landwehr often visited Hicks, who-was sixty-seven years old and suffered from emphysema.…