Merchant v. Newton

How courts have described this case

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• erroneous instructions on right of self-defense were “basic and fundamental error” requiring new trial and trial counsel should be deemed ineffective
• court's charge free of error when it provided an accurate factual 22 summary of the testimony given and contained no suggestion that the jury return a verdict of guilty

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