Reed v. State

HINES, Justice.

Ronald Reed was convicted of malice murder, cruelty to a child in the second degree, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and tampering with evidence in connection with the fatal shooting of his sometime girlfriend, Dawn Nowakowski, in the presence of her young daughter. Reed appeals, claiming error in the rejection of his Batson challenges, the admission of evidence of a prior difficulty with the victim, the exclusion of certain evidence, the omission of a portion of the jury instruction regarding the voluntariness of Reed’s statement, and the failure to…