State v. Stanley

Summary

The court affirmed Stanley's first-degree murder conviction, holding that the challenged premeditation instruction was legally and factually appropriate, that premeditated first-degree murder is distinct from intentional second-degree murder, and that the premeditation statute is not unconstitutionally vague. The court also declined to consider Stanley's unpreserved mistrial argument and rejected his cumulative-error claim because it found no reversible error. No separate-opinion block was supplied for extraction.