Ayers v. State

I concur in Divisions 1 and 3 of the majority opinion, and with the majority’s conclusion that the trial court erred in denying Ayers’s request to have his second counsel make an additional closing argument on his behalf. But, because the evidence of Ayers’s guilt was so overwhelming that it renders any other version of events virtually without belief, I respectfully dissent from the reversal of Ayers’s multiple convictions centered on the hog-tying, blindfolding, and touching of the three young boys B. Z., B. R, and C. C. in a manner consistent with the myriad images of bondage pornography…