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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Moeller finds that the trial court properly convicted defendant in a second retrial of murdering two people at a campsite in 1985. The state's late disclosure of prison phone calls made by defendant's brother, which were not admitted into evidence, did not prejudice defendant, and it was within the trial court's discretion to allow the state to question the brother about the content of the calls as prior inconsistent statements. Statements made by the trial court in the first retrial did not express principle or a rule of law, so the law of the cases doctrine did not apply to them. His speedy trial rights were not violated by the second retrial, which came more than 25 months after the first retrial was declared a mistrial, since he caused most of the delay and it did not result in prejudice. Affirmed.