Commonwealth v. Gillespie

How courts have described this case

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• holding opportunity to retreat existed because, “the fight occurred on a public sidewalk, with several avenues of retreat available.”
• holding opportunity to retreat existed because, “the fight occurred on a public sidewalk, with several avenues of retreat available[]”
• rejecting claim of self-defense when defendant used greater force than was reasonably necessary to protect against death or serious bodily injury during fight on public sidewalk by striking victim in head twice with baseball bat and kicking prostrate victim in head
• evidence that defendant beat aggressor-victim after aggressor-victim fell unconscious was sufficient to disprove self-defense and established defendant breached duty to retreat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).