Baltimore & O. R. v. Fidelity Storage Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that defendant had “no basis for a ‘bona fide belief that he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm’ and could ‘escape from such danger’ only by using deadly force”
• “prior ‘calculation and design’ is a more stringent element than the ‘deliberate and premeditated malice’ which was required under prior law.”
• defendant obtained a weapon from his apartment after fighting with victim in hallway, returned to hallway, and stabbed wounded, helpless victim to death
• “prior calculation and design” found where defendant “used extreme aggression” against victim, then left “the victim in the hallway and return[ed] to his apartment to secure the weapon which he used to stab the victim to death instants later”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).