State v. Redmond

Summary

The court reversed Redmond’s second degree assault conviction and remanded for a new trial because the trial court prejudicially failed to instruct the jury that a person acting in self-defense has no duty to retreat when assaulted in a place where the person has a right to be. The court also held that the trial court abused its discretion by admitting a hearsay statement without a limiting instruction and by failing to redact fault-attributing portions of medical records, but it did not decide whether those errors independently required a new trial.