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Division 1 Court of Appeals

State of Washington v Merle Charles Buchanan. Buchanan appeals the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on self-defense in resistance of a felony during his trial on two counts of murder in the second degree, the trial court’s giving of the first aggressor instruction, and the prosecutor’s closing argument as misstating the law. COA #829874. King County Superior Court #18-1-00313-6.