Kinnamon v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to request an instruction on a lesser included offense is not deficient performance where the evidence does not authorize the instruction
• holding that failure to request an instruction on a lesser included offense is not deficient performance where the evidence does not authorize the instruction
• no reference to violation of mandatory statute as a source of reversible error
• no reference to violation of mandatory statute as a source of reversible error
• since evidence did not authorize submission of murder instruction as lesser-included offense appellant’s trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to request it
• failure to request lesser included charge not deficient where evidence did not authorize lesser included charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).