People v. Miller

A jury convicted the defendant, Michael Miller, of, among other things, first-degree murder (after deliberation) and first-degree felony murder, rejecting Miller’s affirmative defense of involuntary intoxication, and rejecting evidence that Miller’s voluntary intoxication had negated the requisite mental state of first-degree murder (after deliberation). Under the doctrine of merger, the felony murder conviction and the first-degree murder (after deliberation) conviction merged, giving rise to only one sentence. Upon Miller’s appeal, the court of appeals overturned the first-degree murder…