State v. Flack

Summary

The court affirmed Flack's convictions and death sentence after rejecting his challenges to the admission of his custodial statements, the denial of continuances and juror challenges, alleged prosecutorial errors, the heinous-aggravator determination, and the penalty-phase instructions. 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 acted within its discretion or correctly applied governing law. The court also upheld the constitutionality of the death sentence under the challenged federal and state constitutional provisions.