Does the law of imperfect self-defense need to be reviewed by a reasonably competent attorney?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Murtishaw v. Woodford, 255 F.3d 926 (9th Cir. 2001):
Murtishaw claims that a reasonably competent attorney would have been alerted to the theory by the headnotes in People v. Wells, 33 Cal.2d 330, 345 (Cal. 1949), the clearest discussion of the imperfect self-defense theory by California courts prior to Flannel.14 We cannot
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