State v. McClaren

¶ 1. This case concerns an interlocutory appeal before the court of appeals of a circuit court's pretrial order. The order permitted the *743defendant-appellant, Jason L. McClaren (McClaren), to introduce in connection with his claim of self-defense what is commonly referred to as "McMorris1 evidence" —evidence of violent acts the victim had committed which McClaren knew about at the time of the alleged crime, and which would bear on the reasonableness of the claim of self-defense — but only on the condition that he provide a summary of that evidence prior to trial so that the court could make a…