STATE v. SHABATA

No. 18483.

678 P.2d 785 (1984)

STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Mohammad SHABATA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin V. Gravis, Ogden, for defendant and appellant.

David L. Wilkinson, Atty. Gen., John Stephen Mikita, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and respondent.


OAKS, Justice.

A jury convicted defendant of the second degree murder of Nabil Mansour, a fellow Libyan student at Weber State College. On appeal, defendant argues that he was denied a fair trial due to prosecutorial misconduct and that the trial court erred by failing to give a cautionary instruction on oral admissions, by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of manslaughter, and by denying defendant's motion for a new trial. We affirm.

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