State v. Lee

NEWBY, Justice.

**671This case is about whether the trial court erroneously instructed the jury when it omitted the relevant stand-your-ground provision from its instructions on self-defense, and, if so, whether such error was preserved. By omitting the relevant stand-your-ground provision, the trial court's jury instructions were an inaccurate and misleading statement of the law. Such error is preserved when the trial court deviates from an agreed-upon **672pattern instruction. Defendant has shown a reasonable possibility that, had the trial court given the required stand-your-ground…