State v. Anderson

Sievers, Judge.

This appeal concerns an issue of apparent first impression. We decide the extent of knowledge an accused accessory to first degree murder must have about the actual killer before he can be convicted of being an accessory. The factual backdrop is that the defendant lied when he told police who murdered Carr Hume, an elderly Omaha resident, because the defendant had no knowledge of who really was the killer.

BACKGROUND

On September 24, 1999, Catherine Martinec, an automobile theft detective with the Omaha Police Department, was dispatched to Bellevue, Nebraska, to interview Mark E.…