Commonwealth v. Vetter, III, J.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “a defendant asserting self-defense or justification may not prove the victim’s aggressive or violent character by specific conduct of the victim unless the conduct was previously known to the defendant”
• holding “that a defendant asserting self-defense or justification may not prove the victim’s aggressive or violent character by specific conduct of the victim unless the conduct was previously known to the defendant”
• collecting cases rejecting defendant’s claimed entitlement to individual questioning during voir dire to explore racial prejudice
• stating that we review evidentiary rulings for abuse of discretion
• finding it was in the district court’s discretion to admit or deny a requested implicit-bias instruction where the issue was already 10 covered by a broader instruction
• pointing out that just because the model instruction was appropriately given “does not mean, of course, that it would have been an abuse of discretion to use [the AIJ Project] instruction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).