Court Opinion

ID: 9551729
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:58:13.817789+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:26.955182
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SINGLETON, Judge,
concurring.
The majority apparently holds that whenever two people are involved in a confrontation and as a result one suffers death or serious personal injury, and the other is charged with homicide or assault, the latter is entitled to a jury instruction on deadly and nondeadly force. The “confrontation” serves to meet the “some evidence test,” at least to the extent buttressed by the defendant’s statement that he had a purely subjective fear of injury, the case in Houston v. State, 602 P.2d 784 (Alaska 1979), or of a robbery, the case in Folger. Since I agree that this view is compelled by Houston, 602 P.2d at 785, I concur; but I believe Houston was wrongly decided for the reasons set out in Justice Matthews’ dissent. Id. at 797.