Harkrader v. Whitman

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the trial court erred by instructing the jury that self-defense did not apply to the possessory, nonassaultive felony-firearm charge
• holding that a defendant may assert self-defense as a defense to felony-firearm
• holding that a defendant may assert self-defense as a defense to felony-firearm
• listing with approval the factors set forth in M Crim JI 7.15(4)
• a jury need not convict a defendant of the charged underlying felony in order to convict the defendant of the crime of felony-firearm
• “The trial court’s erroneous instruction that defendant’s act of felony-firearm could not be justified by self-defense was prejudicial.”

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