State v. Killings

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rosen, J.:

A jury found Trevejon Killings guilty of premeditated first-degree murder, and he received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years (hard 50 life sentence).

On direct appeal before this court, Killings argues: (1) The district court erred by failing to instruct the juiy on second-degree intentional murder and second-degree reckless murder as lesser included offenses of premeditated first-degree murder; (2) the prosecutor committed misconduct during his closing arguments; (3) the district court erred by…