Leandrew Beasley v. State of Indiana

On Petition to Transfer from the Indianá Court of Appeals, No. 49A02-1406-CR-382

MASSA, Justice.

Leandrew Beasley' appeals his convictions for the murder of James Allen, the attempted murder of Gerald Beamon, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. We now grant transfer with respect to a single issue raised by Beasley on appeal: whether the trial court abused its discretion in admitting Beam-on’s testimony that Allen told Beamon he had shot Beasley the day before Allen’s murder, on the grounds his statements “had so great a tendency ... to expose the declarant to civil…