State v. Fuhrmann

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• holding that first-degree murder is one crime, although the defendant can commit the crime in several ways
• holding the state’s amendment did not prejudice the defendant’s substantial rights because defendant did not “allege he would have changed his trial preparation or strategy given earlier knowledge of the amended petition”
• holding the state’s amendment did not prejudice the defendant’s substantial rights because defendant did not “allege he would have changed his trial preparation or strategy given earlier knowledge of the amended petition”
• noting that “[f]irst- degree murder may be committed in several ways” and holding under a prior version of the statute, that it was permissible to amend trial information charging first-degree murder to add a different alternative
• allowing amendment of trial information changing first-degree murder by adding a charge of felony-murder because it “was only an alternative means of committing the crime of first-degree murder”
• “grisly nature of these photographs [of murder victim] is an unavoidable result of the nature of the killing”

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