Mangi v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• stating that if a defendant’s actions were justified as self-defense, he would not be criminally liable for injuries to an innocent third party, unless the injury to the bystander was caused by the defendant’s reckless or negligent conduct
• anticipatory arming for self defense is relevant to negating charge of possession for unlawful purpose
• defendant, in justified exercise of self-defense, escapes criminal liability for unintended injury to bystander, unless injuries to bystander were caused by defendant's negligence or recklessness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).