Jamar Washington v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an instruction was properly refused because it was “misleadingly incomplete”
• “[F]acts and circumstances must be balanced against what a reasonable person would believe under the same or similar circumstances.”
• “the instruction given in the present case by the trial court was a correct statement of the law”
• trial court’s use of the pattern instruction on self-defense instead of the defendant’s proffered instructions was not an abuse of its discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).