Criminal Law: State v. Eric Amado - Case Study Example

The court then combined the defendant’s murder felony as well as his intention to murder convictions into a capital felony conviction (FindLaw, 2014). There are three issues raised that the defendant asserts, firstly, his convictions concerning the two counts of murder felony were not enough to back up a conviction of a capital felony, secondly, the trial court charged unfitting the jury in that self-defense did not apply to murder felony and thirdly the jury was incorrectly charged concerning rudiments of self-defense hence rendering invalidity of his convictions pertaining the two counts of murder with intent.

In the state v Amado case, the conclusion was that self-defense was unavailable as a means of defense to charges of murder felony. Therefore, addressing claims of inadequate instructions of self-defense. Although the jury dropped Amado’s invitation to reexamine the issue about the convictions of murder felony, the jury’s vacating of the conviction of capital felony requires the jury to address whether it (the jury) was incorrectly charged on the issue concerning self-defense about counts of intentional murder.

Both convictions of murder felony stood (FindLaw, 2014). The said charges did not affect the views of the Supreme Court, of which its findings were limited to capital murder as well as murder felony counts.