State v. Story

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

Defendant Tynisha Story appeals her first-degree murder conviction in the January 1, 2010, shooting death of Lak-easha Ross, a social guest of Story’s girlfriend, Ela Bartley. The district court judge sentenced Story to a hard 25 life sentence.

Story raises several issues that we have combined: (1) admission of and failure to give limiting instructions on evidence of other crimes or civil wrongs; (2) failure to instruct on voluntary manslaughter; (3) prosecutorial misconduct arising from references to school shootings during closing argument;…