LEMMON, Justice.
This is a direct appeal to this court from a conviction of first degree murder and a sentence of death. La. Const. art. V, § 5(D). The principal issues involve (1) the admission in the penalty phase of evidence of unrelated criminal conduct; (2) the prosecutor's reference to defendant's future dangerousness; (3) the prosecutor's reference in closing argument in the penalty phase to defendant's claim of a coerced...
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