State v. Peppers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

Defendant Antwan T. Peppers appeals his convictions of one count of first-degree premeditated murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.

Peppers alleges reversible error in the district judge’s admission of gang affiliation evidence; the content of instructions given to the jury on the gang affiliation evidence and on the burden of another trial; and the prosecutor’s closing argument because of what he views as a comment on facts not in evidence, an endorsement of a victim’s credibility, a shifting of the burden of proof, and…