Miller, Justice: Paul Sims, after pleading guilty to first degree murder, contends that he was coerced into the plea as a result of the trial court’s ruling in connection with the felony-murder rule. The claimed coercion occurred when the trial court ruled preliminarily to the trial that as a matter of law Sims’ defense of an accidental discharge of his s…
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