State v. Edwards

CRIST, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his jury conviction of second degree murder, for which he was sentenced as a prior and persistent *413offender to 200 years imprisonment. On appeal, defendant asserts 1) the trial court erred in denying his request for a continuance; 2) the trial court committed plain error in overruling defendant’s objection to the State’s “death-qualification” of the jury; 3) the trial court erred in coercing the jury to reach a compromise verdict; 4) the trial court erred in denying defendant’s offered jury instruction concerning impeachment of a State’s witness with a prior…