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Title: State v. Duran
Author : Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma
Release Date : January 20, 2006
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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1 Defendant Nathaniel Duran ("Defendant") was convicted of first-degree murder, criminal sexual penetration while armed with a deadly weapon, and tampering with evidence. The trial court sentenced Defendant to life in prison for murder in the first-degree, nine years for criminal sexual penetration, and 18 months for tampering with evidence, with each sentence to run consecutively. Defendant appeals his convictions for first-degree murder, see Rule 12-102(A)(1) NMRA 2006 (appeals from sentence of life imprisonment taken to the Supreme Court), and tampering with evidence, asserting on appeal that insufficient evidence exists to support the verdicts. Defendant also asserts that the State committed fundamental error when the prosecutor forced Defendant to comment on the credibility of other witnesses. We affirm Defendants conviction for first-degree murder, reverse the conviction for tampering with evidence, and hold that, while the questioning by the prosecutor was clearly improper, there was no fundamental error.