State v. Douglas
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions on three counts of first-degree premeditated murder, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on his two instructional error claims and his one prosecutorial error claim.
Specifically, the Supreme Court held (1) any error committed by the trial court in failing to instruct the jury on both second-degree intentional murder and voluntary manslaughter as lesser included offenses was not reversible; (2) the prosecutor offered his personal opinion in using the rhetorical phrase "we know" during closing argument, but the error was not reversible; and (3) collectively, the one error and two assumed instructional errors did not produce the degree of prejudice necessary for reversal.
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