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· 7/26/2007

State v. Wigington

Citations

  • 649 S.E.2d 185
  • 375 S.C. 25
  • 2007 S.C. App. LEXIS 159

How courts have described this case

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  • finding the defendant's conduct could be reasonably calculated to bring about the difficulty because he injected himself into a verbal argument between other people, removed himself from the presence of the controversy, and returned with a loaded gun
  • \[O]ne who provokes or initiates an assault cannot escape criminal liability by invoking self[-]defense.\ (first alteration in original
  • \[O]ne who provokes or initiates an assault cannot escape criminal liability by invoking self[-]defense . . . .\ (first alteration in original) (quoting State v. Bryant, 336 S.C. 340, 345, 520 S.E.2d 319, 322 (1999))

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Judges: Huff, Anderson, Beatty

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