Tyree v. United States

RUIZ, Associate Judge:

Appellant appeals his conviction of first-degree premeditated murder and various weapons offenses for the shooting death of Devon Taylor. Appellant challenges the aiding and abetting instruction given to the jury, the admission of other crimes evidence, the court’s failure to instruct the jury on the defense theory of the case, and the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion for a mistrial due to improper comments during the prosecutor’s closing argument. We affirm.

I

At trial, the government presented evidence that on February 7, 2000, appellant and Alvin Narce (who…