Sanders v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Sanders’s convictions for two counts of capital murder and his life-without-parole sentences after his retrial. It held that testimony obtained through an allegedly improper sentence reduction was not subject to suppression, that the circuit court reasonably limited impeachment concerning the witness’s plea deal, and that prior trial and sentencing testimony was admissible. The court also held that Sanders could not relitigate the exclusion of identical evidence previously reviewed on appeal under the law-of-the-case doctrine.