Criminal Law
Defenses
4 case briefs on defenses in Criminal Law, each with the citation in the book’s form. All Criminal Law briefs
United States v. Peterson
United States v. Peterson, 483 F.2d 1222 (D.C. Cir. 1973).
Did the trial judge err in instructing the jury that it could consider whether Peterson was the aggressor, when he claimed self-defense in shooting Keitt?
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
People v. Goetz
People v. Goetz, 497 N.E.2d 41 (N.Y. 1986).
Does the defense of justification under New York Penal Law section 35.15 require an objective standard of reasonableness, evaluated from the perspective of a reasonable person in the defendant's situation, rather than a wholly subjective standard based only on what was reasonable to the defendant?
New York Court of Appeals
State v. Abbott
State v. Abbott, 174 A.2d 881 (N.J. 1961).
Did Abbott have to show plain error to challenge the retreat instruction, even though he did not object to the charge as given, after he had requested a different charge and objected to its refusal?
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Clark v. Arizona
Clark v. Arizona, 548 U.S. 735 (2006).
Does due process prohibit Arizona from defining insanity solely as the incapacity to know that a criminal act was wrong, after the legislature dropped the cognitive-incapacity part of the older M'Naghten test?
Supreme Court of the United States