State v. Patterson

I believe (I) the killing and robbery of the victim did not form one continuous transaction, and it was therefore error to submit a felony murder instruction to the jury; (II) the testimony of Respess regarding the victim’s statements to her was inadmissible hearsay; and (III) neither of these errors require a new trial. As I otherwise fully concur with the majority, I join the majority in affirming Defendant’s conviction for first-degree murder.

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Our statutes specifically provide that a murder “committed in the perpetration . . . of. . . robbery . . . shall be deemed to be murder in the first…