State v. Wells

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

This is defendant Melissa Wells’ direct appeal from jury convictions of felony murder and child abuse, stemming from the death of 23-month-old B.C. Wells was sentenced to consecutive terms of life and 55 months’ incarceration with lifetime post-release supervision. She claims several errors entitle her to reversal on appeal, including failure to give a limiting instruction; prose-cutorial misconduct; denial of her request for substitute counsel; multiplicitous convictions; exclusion of letters she wrote after her arrest; and failure to give…