Blandon v. State

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the court must give standard jury instruction on justifiable and excusable homicide in all murder cases, \even if there is no basis in fact for the charge\ and that the court's failure to do so constitutes fundamental error
• “Fundamental error analysis would not apply if the defendant knowingly waived the [objection],” that is, if “defense counsel makes a tactical decision” not to object
• “Jurors need to know what constitutes a criminal act so that they may differentiate between a criminal and noncriminal act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).