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State v. Burks

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  • 237 S.W.3d 225
  • 2007 Mo. App. LEXIS 1259
  • 2007 WL 2584654

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  • concluding the defendant’s testimony that “he ‘was thinking’ somebody was going to beat him up and… he ‘figured’ someone would ‘kick the snot’ out of him” did not establish substantial evidence that deadly force was necessary
  • finding self-defense was not injected because \[a]t no time did [defendant] testify he was aware of certain and imminent serious bodily injury\

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Judges: Nancy Steffen Rahmeyer

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