Court Opinion

ID: 9558276
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:05:50.821366+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:37.215004
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*758Williams, J.
(concurring)—The question "If the judge were to instruct you that a person has a right to self-defense, would you be able to follow that instruction?" cannot be appropriately answered in the abstract, the veniremen not knowing the instruction's context. The court properly shut off an answer. Defendant's subsequent argument that thereby the court would not allow him "to inquire as to their [veniremen] predisposition toward general self-defense" and that he could not "detect people prejudiced against that defense" is not supported.
I therefore join in affirming the judgment.
Review denied by Supreme Court September 19, 1985.