State v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 107 Wis. 2d 400 - Loy v. Bunderson · 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess · 110 Wis. 2d 485 - State v. Felton · 228 Wis. 2d 106 - Peace Ex Rel. Lerner v. Northwestern National Insurance · State v. Hoyt
Most-quoted passages
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“The law of self-defense allows the defendant to threaten or intentionally use force against another only if: • the defendant believed that there was an actual or imminent unlawful interference with the defendant's person; and, • the defendant believed that the amount of force the defendant used or threatened to use was necessary to prevent or terminate the interference; and • the defendant's beliefs were reasonable. ... In determining whether the defendant's beliefs were reasonable, the standard is what a person of ordinary intelligence and prudence would have believed in the defendant's position under the circumstances that existed at the time of the alleged offense. The reasonableness of the defendant's beliefs must be de termined from the standpoint of the defendant at the time of the defendant's acts....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the turbulent and violent character of the victim by proving prior specific instances of violence within his knowledge at the time of the incident.. . . [I]t must be shown that he knew of such violent acts of the victim prior to the affray.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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