State v. Chapman

WHICHARD, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of the first-degree murders of Tenene Yvette Conley and Betty Jean Ramseur and sentenced to death for each murder. He appeals from his convictions and sentences. We conclude that defendant received a fair trial, free of prejudicial error, and that the sentences of death are not disproportionate.

The State’s evidence tended to show that Conley was a young, black female who used crack cocaine daily and paid for her habit through prostitution. Conley’s body, naked from the waist down, was found in the basement of a vacant house at 649 First Avenue, S.E.,…