State v. Revels

Summary

The court affirmed the defendant’s murder conviction after rejecting four claims concerning eyewitness identification, a jury view, self-defense, and the jury instruction on initial aggressor. It held that the one-on-one showup was justified by an immediate need to identify an armed and dangerous shooter, that the changed crime-scene conditions justified denying a jury view, and that the evidence disproved self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. It also held that the entire jury charge adequately conveyed the reasonable-person requirement and therefore did not constitute plain error.