McCombs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The evidence was undisputed that McCombs had been told that he was outnumbered and that it was possible he was going to get his ‘butt whooped.’ McCombs had been hit by three people and, by all accounts, was attempting to run when Vaughan was killed. Based upon this evidence, a defense that McCombs acted out of a reasonable belief that an assault was imminent was a viable defense. Had the jury been allowed to consider that McCombs acted in self-defense, the verdict may have been different. Armstrong’s deficient conduct prejudiced McCombs’s opportunity for a fair trial and reliable verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte McCombs