Riggs v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Riggs's murder and armed-robbery convictions. It held that excluding his proposed testimony about childhood rape was not an abuse of discretion because the testimony was irrelevant to voluntary manslaughter, justification, self-defense, or insanity, and any limited relevance to credibility was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence. The court also held that Riggs's ineffective-assistance claim was abandoned and, in any event, lacked merit because trial counsel preserved the evidentiary objection.