Couture v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a police officer is “entitled to use deadly force to protect himself . . . , but only if the ‘amount of force’ was not excessive and was ‘reasonable in relation to the perceived threat’”
• recognizing that a police officer is “entitled to use deadly force to protect himself . . . , but only if the ‘amount of force’ was not excessive and was ‘reasonable in relation to the perceived threat’”
• “[W]e presume juries follow the instructions of the trial court.” (citing Muhammad v. Commonwealth, 269 Va. 451, 524 (2005)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).