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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Anderson affirms the defendant's premeditated murder conviction but reverses his second-degree intentional murder conviction. The district court did not violate the defendant's right to confrontation by preventing defense counsel from telling the jury that a testifying codefendant had taken a plea agreement to avoid a mandatory life sentence, and while it may have erred by not identifying the codefendant as an accomplice in jury instructions, the error did not affect the defendant's substantial rights. As the district court's only error, this issue does not adequately support the defendant's cumulative-effect argument. The second-degree murder conviction, however, was entered in error because it is a lesser-included offense of first-degree murder. Affirmed in part.