State v. Revels
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of conviction, holding (1) the trial court properly denied Defendant’s motion to suppress pretrial and in-court identifications of Defendant; (2) the trial court acted within its discretion when it denied Defendant’s motion to have the jury view the scene of the crime; (3) the state met its burden of disproving Defendant’s justification of self-defense; and (4) the trial court did not commit plain error in its charge to the jury on Defendant’s claim of self-defense when it defined an “initial aggressor” as a person who appeared to threaten the imminent use of physical force.
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