Thompson v. State

■BOEHM, Justice.

After two trials ended in hung juries, Stephen Thompson was convicted in a third trial of the murder of Alan “Scott” Fritzen and sentenced to sixty-five years imprisonment. In this direct appeal he contends (1) the trial court erred in rejecting his tendered instruction on circumstantial evidence; (2) there is insufficient evidence to rebut his alibi defense; (3) the trial court erred in several evidentiary rulings; and (4) the elected judge did not have authority to preside over his retrial after a senior judge had presided over the first trial. We affirm the trial court.

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