People v. Fonda

SMITH, Judge.

Defendant, Mark Henry Fonda, appeals the judgment entered on his conviction by a jury of attempted murder and commission of a crime of violence. Fonda claims the trial court erred (1) by admitting his spontaneous statement made in the presence of the arresting officers; (2) by failing, sua sponte, to give a jury instruction limiting the effect of testimony concerning defendant’s previous malicious acts against the victim; (3) by accepting, as voluntary, defendant’s waiver of his right to testify; and (4) by sentencing defendant to a period of incarceration at the high end of the…