Ajabu v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

Kofi Modibo Ajabu was convicted of three counts of murder, three counts of criminal confinement, three counts of robbery, and one count of burglary. The trial court sentenced Ajabu to concurrent terms of life in prison without parole for each murder conviction, and' to a term of years for each of the other convictions, sixty years of which to be served consecutively to the concurrent life terms. Ajabu’s direct appeal presents several issues that we restate as follows:

I. Was Ajabu’s state constitutional right to be free from self-incrimination, Ind. Const, art. I, § 14, violated…