State v. Jordan

The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court convicting Defendant of, among other crimes, one count of first-degree felony murder based on the underlying inherently dangerous felony of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on his allegations of error.

Specifically, the Supreme Court held (1) Defendant failed to establish that the jury instructions on his fleeing-and-eluding charge created an alternative-means crime by listing more than one felony for which he was attempting to elude capture; (2) the grand jury indictment substituted by the State for a pending criminal complaint was sufficient to invoke the district court's jurisdiction under established precedent; (3) the substitution of the indictment complied with Defendant's due process rights; (4) the prosecutor did not err during closing argument by telling the jury that a State's witness had no motive to be untruthful; and (5) the cumulative error doctrine did not apply.