State v. Williams
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder. The district court imposed a hard twenty-five sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not err in excluding the proffered testimony of a witness as to the victim’s prior specific bad acts of violence; (2) the district court did not err in denying Defendant’s motion for a new trial based on an alleged Brady violation; (3) even if the district court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter, the error was harmless; and (4) the State did not commit prosecutorial misconduct.
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