Caison v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that for a defendant successfully to claim self-defense, the “amount of force used must be reasonable in relation to the harm threatened”
• recognizing that for a defendant successfully to claim self-defense, the “amount of force used must be reasonable in relation to the harm threatened”
• noting that in a jury trial, a witness’s credibility and the weight accorded to their testimony are matters solely for the jury
• finding an ongoing emergency based upon not only the life- threatening condition of the stabbing victim, but also the continued risk that the perpetrator would return and inflict additional harm
• analyzing the reasonableness of force used for a self-defense claim as a factual issue
• “[T]he fact that [the declarant] was answering questions, rather than relaying a spontaneous narrative, does not indicate her statements were not excited utterances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).