Legal Opinion
Butler v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided February 25, 2000No. 02S00-9812-CR-822PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON DIRECT APPEAL
BOEHM, Justice.
Taurus Butler was convicted in a retrial on two counts of murder and of being a habitual offender. He was sentenced to 160 years imprisonment. In this direct appeal he contends that (1) his second trial violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because his first trial ended in a mistrial attributable to the State’s misconduct; (2) the trial court erroneously instructed the jury during the habitual offender phase; and (8) the State impermissibly commented on his failure to testify by placing a letter -written by him in an empty chair and then…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Oregon v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- United States v. ScottSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Moore v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1996
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3Cited by19 opinions
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