State v. Wren

GUNN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant’s appeal from his conviction for second degree murder and life imprisonment sentence raises two points of alleged trial court error: (1) failing to declare a mistrial by reason of the prosecutor’s summation comments on defendant’s criminal record; (2) submitting MAI-CR2d 3.58 at the behest of the state, as it served to highlight defendant’s record of convictions. We find no reversible error and affirm the judgment.

From the evidence, the jury could find the following beyond a reasonable doubt: The defendant and the victim, Melvin Crawford, were neighbors living…