State v. Shields

Summary

The court affirmed Shields's convictions for two counts of premeditated first-degree murder. It held that the district court should have given a cautionary eyewitness-identification instruction, but the omission was not clearly erroneous because counsel's cross-examination and closing argument, the general credibility instruction, the reasonable-doubt instruction, and forensic evidence sufficiently mitigated the error. The court rejected Shields's challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence, precharging delay, photographs, aiding-and-abetting instruction, prosecutorial argument, and cumulative error.