ENTRY ORDER
¶ 1. The State charged defendant Jamie Ovitt with first-degree murder for the killing and subsequent burial of his mother's ex-husband, Duane Perry. A jury convicted defendant of the lesser-included charge of second-degree murder, which carries a statutory presumptive sentence of twenty years to life. 13 V.S.A. § 2303(b). At trial, the court excluded evidence of a prior incident offered in support of defendant's claim that the homicide...
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