MOYLAN, Judge.
The appellant, Bruce Dwight Watkins, was convicted by a Montgomery County jury of second-degree murder. He raises the single contention that the trial judge erroneously failed to instruct the jury that even an initial aggressor at the nondeadly level may yet claim self-defense if the other party escalated the fight to the deadly level.
Without rehearsing the at-times confused and sometimes inconsistent testimony of numerous witnesses, it is...
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