Joseph Dixson v. State of Indiana

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• providing that the fact that the defendant did not have a right to be in the cafeteria in question when the incident occurred negated defendant’s self-defense claim
• noting that, in cases that do not involve deadly force, the defendant does not have to provide evidence of fear of “death or serious bodily harm,” but merely reasonable fear of the “imminent use of unlawful force”
• “When a case does not involve deadly force, a defendant claiming self-defense must show that he was protecting himself from what he ‘reasonably believe[d] to be the imminent use of unlawful force.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).