Jeffrey v. State

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

Appellant Wisdom Jeffrey was convicted of murder and related crimes in connection with the August 2010 shooting death of his wife. Jeffrey appeals, arguing in his sole enumeration of error that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to request a jury instruction on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter. Though we find no error in the verdicts, we do find error with respect to the trial court’s merger of some offenses, and we therefore must vacate and remand to the trial court for proper merger and resentencing.

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