McDonald v. State

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

Appellant Steve McDonald was convicted of malice murder and other offenses in connection with the July 13, 2001 homicide of Kim Condry. Appellant now appeals, contending that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance and challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the composition of the jury pool, and the trial court’s refusal to allow him to represent himself at trial. Though we find no error in the verdicts, we do find error with respect to the trial court’s merger of offenses, and we therefore must vacate and remand to the trial court for proper merger and…