State v. Jackson
State v. Jackson
Opinion of the Court
would grant and assigns reasons:
Jjl write separately to note that the writings from the composition journal recovered from the defendant’s bedroom and which bore defendant’s nickname, while offensive in nature, are material, relevant and probative as they appear to address defendant’s self-defense claims to his double homicide indictment. This Court has previously ruled that a trial court abused its discretion in excluding lyrics which had significant probative value to show the defendant’s authority and the extent of his
I also believe that the trial court abused its discretion on severance of the other offenses. Those counts are based on acts or transactions connected together and constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the parts of which scheme or plan allegedly led to the capital murder of two victims.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- STATE of Louisiana v. Rhmad Rashad JACKSON
- Status
- Published