State of Missouri, Respondent/Cross-Appellant v. Elvis Smith, Appellant/Cross-Respondent.

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• holding that substantial evidence did not establish that defendant was faced with a real or apparently real necessity to use deadly force to defend himself
• “A defendant may be justified in the use of physical force when he reasonably believes such force is necessary to defend himself from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful force by another.”

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