State v. Luckie’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “The Defendant, however, must have acted upon an honest and reasonable conviction of necessity and a good faith belief that the decedent intended to kill or seriously injure him. The defendant having such an honest and reasonable apprehension of such danger may act to defend himself in such manner and with such means as may seem to him reasonably necessary in view of the circumstances. The kind and degree of force which a person may lawfully use in defense of himself is limited by what a reasonable person in the same situation as such person, seeing what he sees and knowing what he knows, then would believe to be necessary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Interest of ADR

2. “[T]he reasonableness of the defendant’s use of force is to be evaluated from the defendant’s perspective under the facts and circumstances known to the defendant[,j ... this does not mean that a jury should not be instructed to apply an objective “reasonable person” standard for determining the validity of a defendant’s self-defense claim. [[Image here]] This [c]ourt has not rejected the objective “reasonable person” standard insofar as self-defense instructions are concerned. To the contrary, we have accepted this standard.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Interest of ADR