Echavarria v. State

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• holding that robbery includes acts taken in attempting to escape for purposes of felony murder
• concluding that the district court did not err when it refused the defendant’s proposed instruction but offered another instruction which incorporated the substance of the defendant’s proposed deadly-weapon-enhancement instruction
• concluding that the district court did not err when it refused the defendant's proposed instruction but offered another instruction which incorporated the substance of the defendant's proposed deadly-weapon-enhancement instruction
• holding allocution is not intended to provide a defendant with an opportunity to introduce unsworn, self-serving statements of his innocence as an alternative to taking the stand
• holding allocution is not intended to provide a defendant with an opportunity to introduce unsworn, self-serving statements of his innocence as an alternative to taking the stand
• recognizing \that a jury verdict of guilty may render harmless an error in the grand jury proceedings\

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