State v. Copley

Summary

The Court affirmed the defendant's first-degree murder conviction after finding no gross impropriety in the prosecutor's closing argument and no reversible error from the habitation-defense instruction because any defect was invited. It held that the trial court's lying-in-wait instruction inaccurately described the relationship between that offense and the statutory castle doctrine, but concluded the error was not prejudicial because the jury separately found the defendant guilty of first-degree murder based on premeditation and deliberation.