State of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee v. Brian J. Erickstad, Defendant and Appellant; State of North…

Summary

The court affirmed the defendants’ convictions for murder, conspiracy, and theft. It held that the defendants failed to show the pretrial publicity made an impartial jury impossible, failed to preserve their objections to the voluntary-intoxication instructions and could not establish obvious error, and did not show an abuse of discretion in admitting vehicle-value evidence. The court also concluded that any possible confusion regarding intoxication could not have affected the alternative general-intent murder verdicts or the ultimate result.