State v. Lyman

WIGGINS, Justice.

The defendant appeals from her conviction for second-degree murder alleging that the district court erred in holding she was competent to stand trial and by failing to instruct the jury that murder in the second degree is a specific intent crime. She also claims her trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to redact and/or object to the introduction of evidence depicting the defendant’s repeated invocations of her right to remain silent as well as failing to object to prosecution references to these statements during closing arguments. In this…