MARSHALL, C.J.
On June 21, 1999, the defendant, Carl E. Vatcher, fatally shot his eleven year old son, James. A Superior Court jury convicted him of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. The defendant does not contest that the evidence supports the jury's verdict. Rather, on appeal, he argues that the trial judge's denial of his request for a voluntary manslaughter instruction was reversible error. The defendant also asks that we exercise...
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