States v. State

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Shawn States was found guilty of capital murder for killing Justin Howard and Antoine Reece while in the commission of armed robbery. States brings three arguments on appeal: (1) the prosecution discriminated based on race and gender in its peremptory strikes; (2) the trial court failed to grant circumstantial-evidence instructions; and (3) the trial court improperly granted the prosecution a “flight” instruction. Because we find no reversible error, States’s conviction is affirmed.

BACKGROUND

¶2. Antoine Reece’s flaneé discovered his dead body at…