Day v. State, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 817 (TX Ct. App. 13th 2020) LOSD Summary: This case involves a domestic dispute in which both the defendant and his female partner (and mother of his children) wielded guns against the other. Only the defendant ended up firing a shot, which struck a couch, and he was […]
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People v. Daphelin Seon Triplett, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 606 (MI Ct. App. 2020) LOSD Summary: This case involves a domestic dispute in which the defendant threatened with a machete his female partner who had come to his home to retrieve her clothes and their mutual child. After being threatened with the machete the female
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People v. Rajput, 2020 Mich. LEXIS 127 (MI Supreme Court 2020) LOSD Summary: The facts of this case are a bit complicated: the defendant and a friend were driving in their car when they were fired upon by people in a second car. The defendant and his friend returned home, then set out again in
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People v. Croff, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 779 (MI Ct. App. 2020) LOSD Summary: This case is a good example of a typical “bad guy” case of self-defense, the type of self-defense claim most commonly seen in the criminal justice system and most easily defeated by prosecutors. “Good guy” cases of self-defense tend to have
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Dutton v. State, 2020 Ind. App. Unpub. LEXIS 131 (IN Ct. App. 2020) LOSD Summary: The facts of this case are too lengthy to cover in detail in a summary, so I’ll just note that the defendant and victim were involved in a lengthy “monkey dance” outside a bar, which culminated in the defendant striking
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People v. Smith, 2020 IL App (1st) 161256-U (IL Ct. App. 1st 2020) LOSD Summary: The defendant shot and killed the victim, and was charged with first-degree murder. At a bench trial (a trial in which the judge plays the role of the jury, so there is no jury) the defendant argued self-defense. Under IL
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Routenberg v. State, 2020 Fla. App. LEXIS 1147 (FL Ct. App. 2nd 2020) LOSD Summary: This case is a good example of a trial judge messing up self-defense jury instructions in a way one would not expect of someone who is supposed to be a legal professional, resulting the court of appeals remanding for a
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People v. Pridmore-Ybarra, 2020 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 515 (CA Ct. App. 3rd 2020) LOSD Summary: The facts of the case are straightforward: the defendant was a professional criminal who routinely worked with the victim, also a professional criminal. The defendant became unhappy with the victim, thinking he was being cheated. The defendant went to
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Komakhuk v. State, 2020 Alas. App. LEXIS 11 (AK Ct. App. 2020) LOSD Summary: This case is both simple, in the facts, and technical, in the law. The facts are that the defendant, a drunk homeless person, got into a confrontation with the doorman of a hotel as the defendant was trespassing on hotel property.
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Romero v. State, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 663 (TX Ct. App. 5th 2020) LOSD Summary: This case is an illustrative example of a defendant failing to meet their burden of production on self-defense. Once a defendant meets their burden of producing some evidence on self-defense, the state is obliged to disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable
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