People v. Manners

SMITH, Judge.

Defendant, James Manners, appeals the judgment entered on his conviction by a jury for his participation in the kidnapping, robbery, and subsequent murder of Gary Statler. Manners claims the trial court erred in excluding certain defense evidence, in reversing its prior ruling severing the trial of co-defendant Edgar Lee Durre (Durre), in submitting a supplemental instruction in response to the jury’s interrogatory, and in denying defense challenges for cause to two prospective jurors. We affirm.

The dead body of the victim, Gary Stat-ler, was discovered in a field. Statler’s…