State v. Hudson

During a street altercation between defendant and his neighbor, Salomon, defendant stabbed Salomon in the back with a knife, which resulted in Salomon’s death. Defendant argued at trial that Salomon was choking him from behind and that defendant stabbed him in self-defense. The jury acquitted defendant of murder but convicted him of the lesser-included charge of first-degree manslaughter, ORS 163.118.

On appeal, defendant raises three assignments of error. We reject the second and third assignments without discussion and write only to address the first assignment of error, in which defendant…