Keyser v. State

JACOBS, Justice.

Michael E. Keyser, the defendant-below (“Keyser”); appeals from his sentence of life imprisonment arising out of his convictions of first degree intentional murder and first degree conspiracy to commit murder. Keyser asserts four claims of error, namely, that the Superior Court: (1) abused its discretion by excluding the hearsay statement of decedent Jacob Jones; (2) abused its discretion by declining to grant Keyser’s requested presumption of innocence instruction to the jury; (3) legally erred by failing to issue a lesser included offense jury instruction for at-tfempted…