State v. Bustos
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse, second-degree intentional murder, second-degree felony murder, and third-degree murder. The Supreme Court (1) reversed Defendant’s first-degree murder conviction and remanded for a new trial on that charge, holding that the district court committed multiple plain errors that, taken cumulatively, affected Defendant’s substantial rights and the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the judicial proceedings; and (2) Defendant was not entitled to a new trial on the charge of second-degree intentional murder because any alleged error based on the exclusion of Defendant’s preliminary breath test results was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
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