Opinion ID: 2116540
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 33

Heading: 2.1. Interweaving of Premeditated and Felony Murder

Text: Lotter asserts that the trial court erroneously interwove the elements of premeditated and felony murder in instruction No. 8 and that the court should have used Lotter's proposed instruction. Instruction No. 8 stated in pertinent part: The material elements ... of Murder in the First Degree, as charged in [Counts I, II, and III] are: 1. That the Defendant, John L. Lotter, killed [Teena Brandon, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine]. 2. That the Defendant, John L. Lotter, did so purposely and with deliberate and premeditated malice; or that the Defendant, John L. Lotter, did so while in the perpetration of a Burglary. That Burglary consists of each and every one of the following elements: a. That the Defendant, John L. Lotter, did willfully, maliciously and forcibly break and enter the home of Lisa Lambert. b. That the Defendant, John L. Lotter, did so with the intent to commit the felony of Tampering with a Witness. c. That the Tampering with a Witness consists of each and every one of the following elements: