Court Opinion

ID: 9487776
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:26:06.101278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:28.671377
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MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment.
I concur entirely in Parts I, III, and IV of the court’s opinion. I believe, however, that *860the district court should have given Hall’s requested self-defense instruction. See, e.g., Closs v. Leapley, 18 F.3d 574, 579-80 (8th Cir.1994). But I concur in the affirmance of the conviction because I see no reasonable likelihood that Hall would have been acquitted even if the jury had been properly charged or that the fundamental fairness of the trial was affected. See, e.g., United States v. Vue, 13 F.3d 1206, 1213 (8th Cir.1994); see also Frey v. Leapley, 931 F.2d 1253, 1255 (8th Cir.1991).