Brookins v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Brookins’s convictions and two death sentences after concluding that the evidence was sufficient to support the murder convictions and the jury’s rejection of intellectual-disability and mental-illness findings. It held that most trial-error claims were waived, and that the preserved errors were harmless or otherwise did not require a new trial. The court also upheld the applicable death-penalty procedures and found the sentences supported by the aggravating circumstances and not disproportionate.