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- Title: State v. Peters
- Author : Appellate Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 02, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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In this consolidated appeal, the defendant appeals in the first case from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-211 and assault in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-61.2 The defendant appeals in the second case from the judgment of conviction of a violation of probation, rendered by the court by reason of his convictions in the first case.3 The defendant claims that his conviction in the first case is fatally flawed because the trial court improperly (1) instructed the jury on self-defense in four ways, including (a) giving an incorrect definition of ""initial aggressor"" as the first person to use physical force, (b) making an incorrect statement that a person who acted from anger, malice or revenge could not claim self-defense, (c) failing to charge on the subjective-objective standard by replacing that standard with a totally