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The attorney for a southern Indiana man appealing his quadruple murder conviction told the Indiana Supreme Court that circumstantial evidence linking him to that crime doesn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt he was the killer.
A Bartholomew County jury convicted Samuel Sallee last year in the fatal 2013 shootings of three men and a woman. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Sallee’s attorney, Jane Ann Noblitt, told the Supreme Court on Thursday there’s no forensic evidence linking Sallee to those slayings.
But deputy attorney general Jesse Drum noted the male victims’ wallets were found at a home where Sallee was staying. He told the justices that evidence and an inmate’s testimony that Sallee confessed to the killings allowed jurors to reasonably conclude Sallee committed the killings.
