Troxel v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder while committing first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. Thereafter, Defendant filed a petition for postconviction relief, alleging that the district court committed three errors entitling him to relief. The postconviction court denied relief on all grounds. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied Defendant’s request to introduce alternative-perpetrator evidence; (2) the district court did not err when it denied Defendant’s request for a lesser-included-offense instruction on second-degree intentional murder; and (3) the trial judge presiding at Defendant’s jury trial was not disqualified based on an appearance of partiality.
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