State v. LAUREAN

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the trial court did not err in failing to submit to the jury the lesser included offense of second-degree murder and where it did not err by excluding specific instances of conduct as evidence of the victim’s behavior while allowing evidence regarding the victim’s reputation for truthfulness, we uphold the judgment of the trial court.

In January 2008, for offenses occurring in December 2007, defendant Corporal Ceasar Armando Laurean of the United States Marine Corps was indicted on charges of first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, financial transaction card…