People v. Roadcap

How courts have described this case

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• disposing of defendant's arguments that statutory scheme violated right to present a defense and to effective assistance of counsel on same grounds
• “A prosecutor has wide latitude to respond to a defendant’s ‘opening salvos’ in closing argument.”
• “A prosecutor has wide latitude to respond to a defendant’s ‘opening salvos’ in closing argument.” (citation omitted)
• “A trial court should instruct the jury on a principle of law when there is some evidence to support the instruction .”
• evi dence that defendant walked out of house, went back inside a couple of minutes later, and ran after victim fleeing from the home supported an inference that defendant initiated the fight
• trial court did not preclude mental condition defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).