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YOUNG v. STATE

No. 91-154.

849 P.2d 754 (1993)

Michael Jay YOUNG, Appellant (Defendant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Defendant).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wyoming Public Defender Program: Leonard D. Munker, State Public Defender, Dave Gosar, Asst. Public Defender, Timothy K. Newcomb, Cheyenne, and Edward P. Moriarity and Kent W. Spence, Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., Sylvia Lee Hackl, Deputy Atty. Gen., Barbara L. Boyer, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Mary Beth Wolff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before MACY, C.J., THOMAS, CARDINE and GOLDEN, JJ., and URBIGKIT, J., Retired.

THOMAS, Justice.

The major issue to be resolved in this case is whether the instructions on the law of Wyoming given to the jury adequately distinguish the offenses of first degree murder and second degree murder. Michael Jay Young (Young) asserts additional, collateral issues relating to the failure of the state to preserve evidence claimed to be both exculpatory and essential to his defense, together with the constitutional implications of that failure; the refusal...

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