McCain, Steven Dale

How courts have described this case

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• evidence that elderly and handicapped victim struck defendant twice during robbery did not support sudden combat charge
• no reasonable provocation where elderly disabled victim punched defendant in face twice before defendant strangled him
• “A defense counsel’s strategic decisions do not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel unless they are ‘manifestly unreasonable’ ” [citations omitted]
• although defendant testified that victim struck him twice, no reasonable jury could have accepted suggestion that he was provoked into brutal killing
• in choking murder of elderly disabled man, provocation “untenable” despite defendant’s testimony that victim had twice punched him in face
• although defendant testified that victim struck defendant twice, “no reasonable jury could have accepted the suggestion that the defendants were provoked into the brutal killing”

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