State v. Grace

Defendant Christine Grace appeals an involuntary manslaughter jury conviction. Defendant raises four issues on appeal: (1) the evidence was insufficient to warrant submission of an involuntary manslaughter charge to the jury; (2) the trial court improperly instructed the jury that involuntary manslaughter is a lesser-included offense of second-degree murder; (3) the self-defense instruction improperly included the term “imminent”; and (4) the instruction defined “imminent” in a manner that did not allow the jury to consider the belief of danger from defendant’s perspective. We affirm.

In 1989,…