State v. LaMere

DISTRICT JUDGE JONES,

sitting by designation for JUSTICE LEAPHART, delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶1 Clifford Thomas LaMere (LaMere) appeals from the Eighth Judicial District Court’s denial of LaMere’s motion for directed verdict of acquittal based on insufficiency of the evidence and LaMere’s conviction of mitigated deliberate homicide. We affirm.

¶2 The following issue was presented on appeal:

¶3 Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied LaMere’s motion for directed verdict of acquittal?

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶4 On September 7, 2000, LaMere was convicted by a…