State v. Montgomery

Summary

The court affirmed Montgomery's convictions for premeditated murder, attempted premeditated murder, and aggravated assault. It assumed, without deciding, that the trial court should have instructed on imperfect self-defense, but held any error harmless because the evidence overwhelmingly showed Montgomery pursued and repeatedly shot an unarmed victim without an imminent threat. The court also held that the evidence sufficiently corroborated Montgomery's confession to support the attempted-murder convictions, that one judicial comment was harmless error, and that a second comment was not erroneous; the court found no cumulative prejudice.