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Title: State Vermont v. William F. Wheelock
Author : Supreme Court of Vermont
Release Date : January 03, 1992
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 67 KB

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Defendant appeals his conviction of second-degree murder for shooting and killing James Brillon during a drug and alcohol binge. Defendant claimed he shot the victim because the victim was attacking him with a knife. He raises three issues, all concerning the trial courts instructions to the jury. Defendant first contends that the trial court erred in its self-defense charge when it instructed the jury to assess the reasonableness of his belief without taking into account his intoxication. Second, he assigns error to the courts refusal to instruct the jury on the theory of "imperfect self-defense." Third, he claims error based on the trial courts failure to instruct the jury that it could draw inferences, favorable to the defense, from the States failure to dust for fingerprints on knives in the kitchen at the crime scene and to test defendant for intoxication when he was arrested. We affirm.