State v. Schumacher
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and endangering a child for fatally shooting his ex-wife while his daughter watched nearby. Defendant was sentenced to twenty-five years to life for the murder conviction and to concurrent one-year jail terms for his child endangerment conviction. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions, holding (1) the State presented sufficient evidence to support both of Defendant’s convictions; and (2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Defendant’s motion for a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct, where the prosecutor committed misconduct in his rebuttal closing argument but the error did not require reversal.
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.