State v. McDonald

The defendant, Paul McDonald, appeals his conviction, by a jury, of first-degree murder. See RSA 630:l-a, 1(a) (2007). On appeal, the defendant argues that the Trial Court (Nicolosi, J.) erred by permitting the State to present certain lay opinion testimony, declining to give the defendant’s requested self-defense jury instruction, and prohibiting the defense from referring to the aggravated felonious sexual assault statute in its closing argument. We affirm.

The record supports or the jury could have found the following facts. The victim, Richard Wilcox, owned a three-bedroom home in…