Commonwealth v. McFadden

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that struggle for gun with estranged husband entitled defendant to self-defense charge
• holding that struggle for gun with estranged husband entitled defendant to self-defense charge
• a self-defense charge is appropriate in cases involving accidental injury when the accidental injury or death occurred while defendant was defending himself
• Lawson standard met where trial counsel failed to request that the jury be charged on self-defense, despite evidence supporting such a charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).