State v. Alderson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Abbott, J.:

This is a direct appeal by Shawn Alderson from his convictions for felony murder and severity level 4 aggravated battery. The trial court imposed an upward durational departure on the aggravated battery charge. The defendant raises nine issues, including sufficiency of evidence, merger, lesser included offenses, failure of the trial judge to recuse himself at the trial and at the sentencing, failure to sequester witnesses, upward durational departure sentence, admissibility of victim’s prior conviction, and cumulative error.

On the evening in…