State v. Decker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnson, J.:

Jay D. Decker appeals his jury trial conviction for felony murder. He claims the trial court erred by: Admitting autopsy and postmortem photographs; allowing testimony of a prior crime or civil wrong; limiting his redirect examination of a witness; and failing to give his requested cautionaiy jury instruction on accomplice testimony. Further, Decker complains that the prosecutor’s misstatement of law in closing argument denied him a fair trial, as did the cumulative effect of all of the trial errors. Finding that Decker received a fair…