Bruner v. State (Majority, with Concurring and Dissenting)
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After a jury trial, Appellants Ricky Bruner and Melissa Workman were convicted of first-degree battery against their son. Bruner was sentenced to forty years in prison, and Workman received a sentence of life imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed Appellants' convictions and sentences, holding that the circuit court (1) did not abuse its discretion in excluding evidence of Appellants' mental condition; (2) did not err by failing to give an instruction on the lesser-included offense of third-degree battery; and (3) did not err in refusing to give a proffered jury instruction defining the phrase "manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life."
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