State v. Bryant

STEELMAN, Judge.

Any error by the trial court in failing to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter based on imperfect self-defense was rendered harmless by the jury’s verdict of first-degree murder under the theory of premeditation and deliberation. The seizure of a notebook from defendant’s vehicle was based upon a valid search warrant.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

On 16 January 2006, at about 2:30 a.m., William Chavis Miller (Miller) fired approximately twenty rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle into the residence occupied by Marcos Devon Bryant (defendant) and others in…