State v. Chavez-Nelson
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. Appellant appealed, alleging several claims of error. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not deprive Appellant of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when it denied his request for advisory counsel to assume full representation of his case at trial; (2) the district court did not commit errors that, either individually or taken together, denied Appellant a fair trial; and (3) Appellant was not prejudiced by any error in the district court’s refusal to instruct the jury on the lesser-included offense of first-degree manslaughter.
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