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1.Whether a defendant's "[a]utonomy to decide that the
objective of the defense is to assert innocence." McCoy v.
Louisiana , 138 S.Ct. 1500, 1508 (2018), is violated by the
assertion of a voluntary intoxication defense which by its very
nature only negates the specific intent element of first-degree
murder.
2.Whether trial counsel "usurp[s] control" in violation
of the Sixth Amendment when he presents an affirmative defense
conceding his client committed a criminal act rather than
"maintain [the defendant's] innocence, leaving it to the State to
prove his guilt. Beyond a reasonable doubt", as the defendant had
asserted. See McCoy, 138 S. Ct. at 1511.
Whether a defendant's autonomy to decide the objective of the defense is violated by the assertion of a voluntary intoxication defense