State v. Flack

Summary

The court affirmed Flack's convictions and death sentence, rejecting challenges to the admission of his custodial statements, continuance denials, juror selection, prosecutorial arguments, the heinous-manner aggravator, penalty-phase instructions, and the constitutionality of the death penalty. It held that Flack's repeated requests to be taken to jail were ambiguous in context and did not invoke his right to remain silent, and that the trial court otherwise committed no reversible error. The court also concluded that the aggravator could apply to the capital murder viewed as a whole rather than requiring proof that each victim was killed in a heinous manner.