State v. Shabazz

Defendant appeals from a voluntary manslaughter conviction, claiming the district court erred by instructing the jury that either of two forms of implied intent to kill, the intent to do serious bodily injury and the extreme indifference to human life, satisfy the intent element of voluntary manslaughter. We affirm.

The incident occurred in the early morning hours of November 11, 1996, when Joel Martin, ultimately the victim, knocked on the door to Mary Brooks’s apartment. Defendant is Mary Brooks’s brother and was inside her apartment at the time. When Brooks answered the door, Martin,…