Opinion ID: 874752
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: issues

Text: 1. Whether sufficient evidence was submitted to support the jury's verdict that Adamcik was guilty of first-degree murder beyond a reasonable doubt? 2. Whether Adamcik's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated by the district court's denial of Adamcik's motion to suppress statements he made to detectives after Adamcik's parents purportedly invoked Adamcik's right to counsel? 3. Whether the district court erred by giving Jury Instruction number twelve, providing that Adamcik could be found guilty of first-degree murder if he engaged in conduct which caused the death of Stoddart? 4. Whether the district court erred in failing to provide the jury with a unanimity instruction requiring the jury to find that Adamcik committed the same specific act that caused Stoddart's death? 5. Whether the jury instruction regarding malice was a misstatement of the law which lowered the State's burden of proof? 6. Whether the district court erred by instructing the jury on a lying-in-wait theory of first-degree murder after the State had abandoned that allegation? 7. Whether the prosecutor's closing argument amounted to fundamental error? 8. Whether the cumulative error doctrine necessitates a reversal? 9. Whether the district court abused its discretion in sentencing Adamcik? 10. Whether the sentences imposed on Adamcik were unreasonable or cruel and unusual under the Idaho Constitution? 11. Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Adamcik's Rule 35 motion?