Mauricio Alejandro Torres v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Torres’s convictions for capital murder and first-degree battery. It held that the capital-murder statute’s phrase requiring circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life is sufficiently definite, and that the circuit court did not abuse its discretion by denying a mistrial after the medical examiner made an unsolicited prejudicial comment. The court concluded that the limiting instruction was sufficient to cure any potential prejudice.