Gibson v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of murder. The trial judge sentenced Defendant to death for the murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the trial court (1) did not abuse its discretion in denying Defendant’s request for a fourth continuance; (2) did not err in refusing to dismiss an entire venire panel or declare a mistrial based on some potential jurors’ exposure to Defendant’s other murder charges; (3) did not abuse its discretion in denying Defendant’s request to ask a case-specific question during voir dire; (4) did not abuse its discretion in denying Defendant’s for-cause juror challenges; and (5) did not abuse its discretion in declining to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter. Further, Defendant’s sentence of death was not inappropriate.
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