VOWELS v. State

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• finding such an instruction to constitute fundamental error where eyewitnesses gave conflicting testimony and the parties did not present forensic evidence establishing the sequence of events, making it unclear who was the initial aggressor
• erroneous forcible-felony instruction “led the jury to believe that [the defendant’s] theory of self-defense was not available to him” and vitiated the fairness of the trial
• fundamental error to give forcible felony instruction where only defense pursued was self-defense, witnesses gave significantly different versions of events as to who initial aggressor was, and no forensic evidence was admitted establishing exact sequence of events

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