State v. Sharpless

McCullough, Judge.

Andre Sharrod Sharpless (“defendant”) appeals from his convictions of felony first-degree murder, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury (“AWDWITKISI”). Defendant was sentenced to life without parole based on the murder conviction and received sentences of 103 to 133 months for burglary and 116 to 149 months for AWDWITKISI to run consecutively with the murder charge. For the following reasons, we award defendant a new trial.

I. Background

On the evening of 30 November…