Commonwealth v. Abubardar

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**1008 The defendant, Raheem Abubardar, was convicted of assault and battery as a lesser included offense of attempted murder. On appeal, he challenged the trial judge's instruction on self-defense, specifically the judge's failure to instruct on **1009 the use of nondeadly force in self-defense. In an unpublished memorandum and order pursuant to its rule 1:28, the Appeals Court affirmed the conviction. See Commonwealth v. Abubardar , 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1121 , 110 N.E.3d 1218 (2018). It concluded that the defendant was not entitled to such an instruction and, even if he had been, its…