Kelso v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Gunderson, J.:

A jury convicted Lynden Oren Kelso of first-degree murder for killing Mary Jane (Sherry) Millhouse, Lester Mitchell, and John Mitchell. At trial, Kelso did not deny shooting the victims, but claimed that in the Millhouse killing he lacked deliberate, premeditated intent requisite for first-degree murder, and that in the Mitchell killings he acted in self-defense. The court sentenced him to serve, concurrently, three life terms in prison, one with possibility and two without possibility of parole. Kelso appeals, seeking reversal on four grounds, i.e. that:

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