Brandon Andrews v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• reflecting an imbalanced split of authority regarding what makes one a provocateur
• “The sufficiency of the evidence to support the instruction is a question of law, as to which our review is de novo.”
• in determining whether words constituted threat, “[t]he words in question must be considered in the context in which they were used”
• “The jury could infer from the fact that appellant brought a loaded gun with him that he foresaw he was about to face a grave danger and prepared to meet it head-on.”
• “A legitimate claim of self-defense is not available to a defendant who voluntarily—knowingly and unnecessarily—placed himself in a position where he had reason to believe his presence would provoke the violence from which he then found it necessary to use deadly force to save himself.”
• “A legitimate claim of self-defense is not available to a defendant who voluntarily – knowingly and unnecessarily – placed himself in a position where he had reason to believe his presence would provoke the violence from which he then found it necessary to use deadly force to save himself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).