Kimball v. Louer

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a justification defense may be asserted against a charge of depraved indifference murder
• stating that “whenever justification is sufficiently interposed by the defendant, the People must prove its absence to the same degree as any element of the crime charged”
• “whenever justification is sufficiently interposed by the defendant, the People must prove-its absence to the same degree as any element of the crime charged”
• ‘‘light most favorable’’ analysis requires instruction to be given if any reasonable view of evi- dence would permit fact finder to find sufficient evi- dence for affirmative defense
• ‘‘light most favorable’’ analysis requires instruction to be given if any reasonable view of evi- dence would permit fact finder to find sufficient evi- dence for affirmative defense
• which was decided subsequent to Jacobs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).