Gold v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Gold’s convictions and sentence, holding that the trial court properly instructed the jury on excessive force as part of its self-defense instructions because the evidence, including Gold’s conflicting accounts and the approximately 20 wounds inflicted on the victim, supported the charge. The court also rejected Gold’s ineffective-assistance claims, concluding that he failed to show prejudice from counsel’s failure to object to brief good-character testimony and that the detective’s lay opinion concerning self-defense was admissible. There were no separate opinions.