Stryker v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Stryker’s convictions after rejecting his claims concerning limits on closing argument, prosecutorial comments, and the failure to give a grave-suspicion instruction. It held that any assumed constitutional error in limiting closing argument was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, found no abuse of discretion regarding the prosecutor’s remarks, and found no plain error in the jury instructions. The court vacated the aggravated-assault and aggravated-battery convictions and sentences because those offenses merged into malice murder.