Commonwealth v. Carbone

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the defendant “was armed with a deadly weapon and the victim was not so armed”
• finding that defendant’s failure to contact police and inconsistent stories, in part, defeated justification defense
• providing that “[although the Commonwealth is required to disprove a claim of self-defense arising from any source beyond a reasonable doubt, a jury is not required to believe the testimony of the defendant who raises the claim”
• providing that “[a]lthough the Commonwealth is required to disprove a claim of self-defense arising from any source beyond a reasonable doubt, a jury is not required to believe the testimony of the defendant who raises the claim”
• providing that “although the Commonwealth is required to disprove a claim of self-defense arising from any source beyond a reasonable doubt, a jury is not required to believe the testimony of the defendant who raises the claim”
• finding where physical and testimonial evidence negate defendant’s story, a jury may consider the intent of defendant’s narrative to mislead police and indicative of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).