State v. Lambert (Signed Opinion)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of first-degree murder, without a recommendation of mercy. Defendant was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the evidence supported instructions on theories of felony-murder and lying-in-wait murder theories, the trial court did not err in denying Defendant’s request to force the State to make an election between the murder theories, and while the instruction on lying-in-wait murder was incorrect, this error was harmless; (2) the trial court correctly refused to give a voluntary manslaughter jury instruction; (3) the examination of a rebuttal witness by the State was not improper; (4) the trial court did not err in admitting a recording of a psychiatric interview of Defendant; (5) the trial court did not improperly restrict the testimony of Defendant’s expert; and (6) the trial court did not err in allowing the State to cross-examine Defendant’s expert in certain areas.
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