State v. Thompson

James J.

At jury trial, Douglas Thompson was convicted of first-degree murder. Counsel for Thompson seeks reversal on the general theory that Thompson was either insane or too drunk at the time of the crime to have been guilty of first-degree murder. He also argues that certain testimony should not have been excluded as hearsay. Thompson has filed his own supplemental brief challenging the admissibility of certain evidence discovered by police as the result of a search and seizure, challenging certain in-court identification testimony, and attacking a reference at trial to his alleged…