State v. Waller

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rosen, J.:

A jury convicted Anthony Waller of felony murder and aggravated kidnapping and found him not guilty of aggravated robbeiy. The district court sentenced him to a hard 20 life imprisonment for the murder conviction and a consecutive 285-month sentence for the aggravated kidnapping conviction.

On appeal, Waller argues that the trial court erred by not instructing the jury on several lesser included offenses of felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated robbery and by failing to give a self-defense instruction. He also argues that the…