BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. Snelson was convicted of the capital murder of Stephen Goode, kidnaping and third degree arson. Because we find trial error of a magnitude that we cannot say that the determination of guilt and sentence were not affected, we are compelled to reverse and remand for a new trial. The court improperly allowed inflammatory and irrelevant evidence and beyond that there was an accumulation of error and near error which, when considered...
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