Flanagan v. State

Jim Hannah, Chief Justice.

A Craighead County jury convicted appellant Judy Flanagan of the capital murder of Dennis Coats, and she was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment without parole. On appeal, she argues that the circuit court erred by refusing to suppress statements she made to law-enforcement officers; by refusing to allow her to call Beverly Coats, the victim’s wife, as a witness; by allowing the jury to replay her recorded statements during deliberations, and by refusing to grant a mistrial based on cumulative error. As this is a criminal appeal in which a term of life…