Blackmon v. Alabama

How courts have described this case

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• justification jury instruction unwarranted because the defendant, who took the gun from a threatening third party, failed to show that he did not maintain possession any longer than absolutely necessary
• “We reject [the appellant’s] argument that any requirement that he acknowledge personal responsibility in order to gain the benefit of the two-level reduction impermissibly prejudices his right to appeal his conviction.”
• keystone of justification defense to a charge of being a felon in possession is that a defendant must have no alternative, either before or during the event, to avoid violating the law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).