State v. Sawyer

RAMIL, Justice.

Defendant-appellant Loretta T. Sawyer appeals from her conviction of attempted murder in the second degree in violation of Ha-wai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) §§ 705-500 and 707-701.5 (1993). 1 Defendant raises five points of error on appeal, the dispositive issue being whether the trial court erred in failing, sua sponte, to give a mitigating defense instruction on attempted manslaughter resulting from extreme mental and emotional disturbance (EMED manslaughter). Because the record is devoid of any evidence supporting an EMED manslaughter instruction and because we overrule State…