Futrell v. Commonwealth

. OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE ABRAMSON

Jared Futrell and Kayla Lord appeal as of right from Judgments of the Wayne Circuit Court convicting each of them of wanton murder and sentencing each, in accord with the jury’s recommendation, to a maximum term of twenty-five years in prison. Lord and Futrell (Appellants) were found guilty of having participated, as principal or as accomplice, in the wanton killing of Lord’s seventeen-month-old son. Appellants were tried jointly, and because their cases thus overlap to a large extent, both factually and procédurally, we have consolidated the two…