Bellcourt v. State

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on defendant’s appeal from a judgment entered on his conviction for first-degree felony murder. He specifically complains of the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on the revival of an aggressor’s right to self-defense and its refusal to submit to the jury the lesser-included offenses of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the first and second degrees. We affirm.

On Thursday, February 10, 1983, defendant was drinking beer with an acquaintance, Frank Norris, at defendant’s home at 3128 Minnehaha Avenue in south Minneapolis. Having run…