Ingvaldsen v. State

After being fully apprised of his right to remain silent the appellant — voluntarily and intelligently — gave an eighteen-page detailed confession stating that he offered Larry Turner $100,000 to assassinate two judges who had issued rulings adverse to his father in state court criminal proceedings. The confession was corroborated by Turner who was the state’s main witness.

Ingvaldsen’s main issue on the challenge to the conviction is that he was unfairly prejudiced by evidence, admitted under the “Williams rule,” that he had previously solicited others to arrange a prison escape for his…