State v. Hessel

*115DEITS, J.

Defendant appeals his convictions on six counts of murder and two counts of aggravated murder. He assigns error to the trial court’s jury instruction that the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance (EED) does not apply to aggravated murder; to its denial of his motions for acquittal, in which he objected to the prosecution’s failure to present sufficient evidence to corroborate his confessions; to the prosecution’s alleged comments on his failure to testify; and to the court’s failure to merge his murder convictions. We affirm.

In October, 1989, the victim drove to…