Commonwealth v. Monico

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing Commonwealth v. Martin, 369 Mass. 640, 649 [1976], which announced the modern defense of another rule
• defendant entitled to instruction on self-defense if warranted by the evidence, viewed in light most favorable to defendant
• “if any view of the evidence would provide support for an affirmative defense, a defendant is entitled to such an instruction”
• “As is the case in the area of self-defense, there must be a threat of harm to the person being protected before its invocation as a defense in a criminal case is justified”
• “As is the case in the area of self-defense, there must be a threat of harm to the person being protected before its invocation as a defense in a criminal case is justified”
• insufficient evidence to raise issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).