People v. Flowers

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION UPON REHEARING

In granting the State’s petition for rehearing, we granted the State leave to raise an additional issue of whether the Reddick error was harmless in light of the felony-murder charge. We file this supplemental opinion to address this issue.

On rehearing, the State argues that we erred in vacating defendant’s murder conviction because the Reddick murder and manslaughter instruction error is irrelevant to defendant’s murder conviction, since a valid conviction for armed robbery necessarily means defendant is guilty of felony murder. Before addressing the merits…