552 F. Supp. 2d 32 - Rude v. ADEBOYEKU’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““ ‘When it comes to determining whether force is reasonably necessary to defend a third person under attack, the focus ultimately must be on the intervenor’s [Ferguson’s], not the victim’s [Dr. Steven Cunning], reasonable perceptions of the situation.’ Frost v. United States, 618 A.2d 653, 661 (D.C. 1992). (citations omitted) In order to prove that an intervenor has the right to use force in the defense of another person, the intervenor must show that he reasonably and actually believed that the other person had a right of self-defense. Id. (citing Fersner v. United States, 482 A.2d 387, 390 (D. C. 1984)); Standardized Civil Jury Instructions for the District of Columbia § 19.06 (2007). Although a jury’s focus is on the intervenor’s ‘reasonable perceptions of the situation,. . . [t]he victim’s perception of the situation, however, is still relevant “to determine what the intervenor’s perceptions actually and reasonably were.” ’ Muschette v. United States, 936 A.2d 791, 799 (D. C. 2007) (citing Fersner, 482 A.2d at 392 ).””

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