Dukes v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Dukes’s convictions in large part, concluding that the challenged hearsay evidence was properly admitted or harmless and that any error concerning the excluded expert testimony was harmless or unpreserved. It held that the two firearm-possession convictions violated substantive double-jeopardy principles because the indictment did not make the different possession times material, rendering the counts legally identical. The court vacated those convictions and sentences and remanded for conviction and resentencing on only one count.