Lee v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that Maryland generally follows the common law rule, which allowed a third person to intervene and defend another using “the same degree and character of force that the one attacked could have used”
• noting that the defendant “has the burden of initially producing some evidence on the issue of mitigation or self-defense (or relying upon evidence produced by the State) sufficient to give rise to a jury issue with respect to these defenses.”
• “The defense of defense of others may not serve to justify or mitigate the use of deadly force when the person ostensibly being defended is not being attacked and is not even the target of a threatened attack.” (Emphasis supplied)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-05-28· cited 21×
• Grimes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-10-28· cited 5×
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2023-03-29
• Hollins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-12-23
• Danshin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-18
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-10-31

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-17· cited 171×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-14· cited 116×
• Prout v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-01-07· cited 105×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-01-10· cited 87×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-21· cited 68×
• Anderson v. Litzenberg
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-28· cited 59×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-09· cited 56×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-06-15· cited 48×
• Tipton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-08-01· cited 36×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-05-05· cited 34×
• Guerriero v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-06-06· cited 33×
• Shuck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-26· cited 32×
• Kang v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-06-02· cited 30×
• Gerald v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-07· cited 25×
• Hickman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-07-12· cited 21×