Hollins v. State

Isiah A. Hollins v. State of Maryland, No. 5, September Term, 2024, Opinion by Killough, J. JURY INSTRUCTIONS—SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE. In a criminal jury trial in which the defendant was charged with attempted first-degree murder and related assault charges and was asserting self-defense, the defense requested a non-pattern jury instruction that the victim had a character trait for violence and that the jury could, therefore, infer that the victim was the initial aggressor. The trial court refused to give the requested jury instruction on the basis that it was not a pattern jury instruction.…