Argument: Not yet scheduled.

Keywords: Criminal Law - Murder

Question Presented: Whether a charge of armed home invasion should have supported an instruction on second-degree felony murder; if so, whether the defendant is entitled to a new trial.

Facts: The defendant and another man came to an apartment armed with handguns. They first threatened the victim’s girlfriend, then shot the victim, who was sitting on the couch, and …

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Argument: September 2010

Keywords: Criminal Law - Criminal Procedure - Lesser Included Offense - Murder

Question Presented: Whether a defendant is entitled to an instruction on the lesser included offense of manslaughter, if a conviction on that offense is barred by the statute of limitations.

Facts: The defendant, Margaret Earle, appeals from her second degree murder conviction following the death of her 20-month-old daughter. The evidence showed that the child had been stomped on by Earle …

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