State v. Murray

Roseanne Murray appeals her Blaine County District Court conviction for deliberate homicide. She raises three issues on appeal: (1) whether the District Court erred in refusing to declare a mistrial because of juror misconduct; (2) whether the defendant received the effective assistance of counsel where the State allegedly failed to file timely notice of witnesses; and (3) whether the court erred in allowing evidence of the defendant’s prior disciplinary acts toward her foster daughter, the victim of the homicide. We affirm.

In September 1985, the defendant and her husband had five children…