KELLY, Judge.
Kimberly Newcomb appeals her conviction and twenty-year sentence for manslaughter by culpable negligence with a deadly weapon. The State concedes that reversal is mandated based upon fundamental error in the jury instruction on self-defense.
In giving the self-defense jury instruction at Newcomb's trial, the trial court included an instruction on the forcible felony exception to self-defense. This court has held that when a defendant commits...
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