BLACKMAR, Judge, concurring in result. I concur in everything in the principal opinion, except its holding that the trial judge did not err in refusing the defendant’s request for an instruction on conventional second degree murder. In so holding, the Court sends the wrong signal to trial judges. The conventional second degree instruction should almost always be given if requested. The…
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