Muteei v. State

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• determining that defendant, who did not request self-defense instruction in attempted first-degree murder prosecution or object to instructions given, failed to preserve such issue for appellate review, where instruction went to defense, not to essential element of crime charge
• noting that at defendant’s trial “defense counsel did not request a self-defense jury instruction, and did not object to the instructions' as given to the jury, which included instructions on justifiable and excusable attempted homicide, but not self-defense”
• rejecting Thomas and following Sochor in holding that failure to give self-defense instruction did not amount to fundamental error where instruction went to defense, not to essential element of attempted murder charge

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