State v. Cribbs

Beier, J.:

Damone Lee Cribbs appeals his jury convictions for attempted second-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm and his sentence on the attempted second-degree murder charge. He takes issue with two jury instructions, the sufficiency of the evidence on criminal possession of a firearm, the voluntariness of his statements to police, and his sentence’s compliance with the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

This case arose out of a bloody confrontation just after midnight on New Years Day 1999 between Cribbs and Angela Jones, a woman with whom he had…