State v. Staten
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of aggravated battery. Defendant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 154 months and ordered to pay $27,000 in restitution. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court erred by failing to explicitly instruct the jury on the burden of proof for self-defense, but the error was not clear error; (2) certain comments made by the prosecutor during closing arguments did not rise to the level of reversible misconduct; (3) the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Defendant’s request for new counsel; and (4) the cumulative effect of the errors in this trial was not so great as to require a new trial.
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